Liev Schreiber Quotes

“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'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.”

— Liev Schreiber

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

— Liev Schreiber

“Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.”

— 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

“If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.”

— Liev Schreiber

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

— Liev Schreiber

“I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.”

— Liev Schreiber

“And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.”

— Liev Schreiber

“No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.”

— Liev Schreiber

“When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.”

— 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

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

— Liev Schreiber

“I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.”

— Liev Schreiber

“As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.”

— Liev Schreiber

“Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.”

— Liev Schreiber

A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.

— Liev Schreiber

“Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.”

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

— Liev Schreiber

“I manage to hide in my movies.”

— Liev Schreiber

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

— Liev Schreiber

“I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.”

— Liev Schreiber

“If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.”

— Liev Schreiber

“If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.”

— Liev Schreiber

“Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.”

— Liev Schreiber

The best gig is the one you've got.

— Liev Schreiber

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

— Liev Schreiber

“Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.”

— Liev Schreiber

“You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.”

— Liev Schreiber

“You should never ask actors about politics.”

— Liev Schreiber

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

— 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

“Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.”

— Liev Schreiber

“Its the difference between instinct and intuition,”

— Liev Schreiber

“Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.”

— Liev Schreiber

“There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.”

— Liev Schreiber

“He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.”

— Liev Schreiber

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

— Liev Schreiber

“I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.”

— Liev Schreiber

“Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.”

— Liev Schreiber

“Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.”

— Liev Schreiber

“I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.”

— Liev Schreiber