Liev Schreiber

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

“I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.”

“I have the kind of face that people want to punch.”

“I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.”

“That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.”

“I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.”

“Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.”

“You always have to create the character from the ground up.”

“I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.”

“I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.”

“The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too.”

“I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.”

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

“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 was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.”

“The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.'”

“I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.”

“During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.”

“I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.”

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