Quotes from Liev Schreiber


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


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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


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


I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.


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


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.


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


Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.


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