199 Quotes by Liev Schreiber

"I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors."

"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."

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

"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."

"You always have to create the character from the ground up."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"You should never ask actors about politics."

"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."