199 Quotes by Liev Schreiber

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

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

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.

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.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them.

Actors, you know, they’re often awkward people in real life.

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

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 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.