Quotes By Liev Schreiber

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.

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.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

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

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

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

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

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

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

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

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

I manage to hide in my movies.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

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.

You should never ask actors about politics.

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.