Quotes by Liev Schreiber - Page 3

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Calm
Masculine
Alpha
Male
Collected
Worries
Copy Quote
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 / Actor
Long
Simple
Talking
Physically
Hamlet
Remarkably
Tends
Copy Quote
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 / Actor
Guessing
Personal Growth
Mix
Varied
Copy Quote
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 / Actor
Growth
Important
Thinking
Copy Quote
The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
History Always Me
History Me People
Classical
Premise
Copy Quote
I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Littles
Sleep
Struggle
Copy Quote
Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Acting
Long
Play
Copy Quote
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 / Actor
Character
People
Struggle
Copy Quote
The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Character Way Doing
Interesting Thing
Observe
Participate
Copy Quote
I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Drag
Gay Community
Iconic
Revolution
Sexual Revolution
Sexual
Mothers
Copy Quote
Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Bike
Consistent
Ride
Same Thing
Tv Show
Copy Quote
I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Chagrin
Evil
First Time
Instinct
Theater
Torn
Describe
Realized
Copy Quote
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 / Actor
New York
Brother
Sleep
Copy Quote
I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Opening
Preview
Rehearsal
Favorite Part
Friends And Family
Repeating
Copy Quote
The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.'
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Broke
Catholic
Eternal
Reporters
Spotlight
Priest
Copy Quote
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 / Actor
Emotion
Expecting
Heavy
Method
Intent
Jump
Copy Quote
No offense to the Canadians, but I believe location is like a character, and authenticity really matters. 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. I think it's pretty easy these days to tell films that are shot in Toronto.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Authenticity
Distinctive
Location
Offense
Toronto
Believe Character I Believe
Canadians
Believe I Believe Character
Recreate
Copy Quote
My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Epitome
Holmes
Time Great Me
Time Great Mother
Alongside
Sheriff
Sherlock Holmes
Copy Quote

Related Actor Authors

Will Rogers
Actor
Tuesday, Nov 04, 1879
Thursday, Aug 15, 1935
Zion Lee
Actor
Zero Mostel
Actor
Sunday, Feb 28, 1915
Thursday, Sep 08, 1977
Zak Orth
Actor
Thursday, Oct 15, 1970
Zachery Ty Bryan
Actor
Friday, Oct 09, 1981
Zachary Scott
Actor
Saturday, Feb 21, 1914
Sunday, Oct 03, 1965
Zachary Quinto
Actor
Thursday, Jun 02, 1977
Zachary Levi
Actor
Monday, Sep 29, 1980
Zachary Knighton
Actor
Wednesday, Oct 25, 1978
Zach Woods
Actor
Tuesday, Sep 25, 1984
Zach Gilford
Actor
Thursday, Jan 14, 1982
Zach Braff
Actor
Sunday, Apr 06, 1975
Zac Efron
Actor
Sunday, Oct 18, 1987
Yves Montand
Actor
Thursday, Oct 13, 1921
Saturday, Nov 09, 1991
Yul Vazquez
Actor
Thursday, Mar 18, 1965

View All Actor Quotes

Top Authors

Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005
John Keats
Poet
Saturday, Oct 31, 1795
Friday, Feb 23, 1821
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Monday, Nov 30, 1874
Sunday, Jan 24, 1965
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist
Monday, Jul 26, 1875
Tuesday, Jun 06, 1961
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist
Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
Thursday, Apr 04, 1968
Walt Disney
Animator
Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
Thursday, Dec 15, 1966
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Thursday, Jul 30, 1863
Monday, Apr 07, 1947
Maya Angelou
Author
Wednesday, Apr 04, 1928
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
John Lewis
U.s. Representative
Wednesday, Feb 21, 1940
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
Wednesday, May 05, 1813
Sunday, Nov 11, 1855
Charles Spurgeon
Preacher
Thursday, Jun 19, 1834
Sunday, Jan 31, 1892
Yogi Berra
Baseball Manager
Tuesday, May 12, 1925
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist
Deepak Chopra
Author
Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947
Aldous Huxley
Writer
Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
Friday, Nov 22, 1963

View All Authors

Liev Schreiber Quotes - Page 3

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Actor Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Actor Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page