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Liev Schreiber Quotes

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don’t think that will ever change.

– Liev Schreiber

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play – and I wasn’t a skater.

– Liev Schreiber

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn’t.

– Liev Schreiber

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

– Liev Schreiber

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It’s such a bizarre experience. I don’t think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you’re probably not that good anymore.

– Liev Schreiber

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

– Liev Schreiber

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

– Liev Schreiber

My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn’t true.

– Liev Schreiber

There’s the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

– Liev Schreiber

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don’t. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

– Liev Schreiber

You hear different things from different people, and they’re all valid: they’re all valuable. I think that’s what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

– Liev Schreiber

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can’t do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

– Liev Schreiber

I’ve never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I’m kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I’m sort of waiting for something to happen that I’m not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

– Liev Schreiber

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don’t understand me, I’m just completely lost.

– Liev Schreiber

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

– Liev Schreiber

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

– Liev Schreiber

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

– Liev Schreiber

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

– Liev Schreiber

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