A biography for Liev Schreiberhasn’t been written yet.
“If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.”
“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.”
“And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.”
“Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.”
“Home is New York.”
“There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.”
“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.”
“The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.”
“I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.”
“I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.”
“Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.”
“I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.”
“I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.”
“You should never ask actors about politics.”
“If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.”
“It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.”
“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.”
“My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.”
“Entitlement is lethal.”
“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.”