Liev Schreiber
You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.Collection: Trying
I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.Collection: Thinking
I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.Collection: Character
And I think for me theres 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.Collection: Thinking
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.Collection: Editing
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Struggle
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.Collection: Drs
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.Collection: Mother
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focusedCollection: Needs
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.Collection: Fun
I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Play
I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.Collection: Thinking
Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.Collection: Addiction
Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.Collection: Actors
The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.Collection: Thinking
Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make themCollection: Kids
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.Collection: Kids