199 Quotes by Liev Schreiber

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.

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.

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

The best gig is the one you’ve got.

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

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can’t do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

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.

You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys.