I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer. Liev Schreiber More Quotes by Liev Schreiber More Quotes From Liev Schreiber If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. Liev Schreiber falling-in-love over-you waiting 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. Liev Schreiber lucky actors teacher I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows. Liev Schreiber size eyebrows scary You should never ask actors about politics. Liev Schreiber politics actors should It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press. Liev Schreiber presses too-much Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them Liev Schreiber obsession littles kids You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes. Liev Schreiber hockey eye hands If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character. Liev Schreiber actors jobs character 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. Liev Schreiber choices jobs thinking Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. Liev Schreiber acting play long 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. Liev Schreiber doing-me careers thinking 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. Liev Schreiber actors careers thinking I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to. Liev Schreiber simple people thinking Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop. Liev Schreiber addiction acting I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs. Liev Schreiber way needs thinking I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me. Liev Schreiber me mother love father Entitlement is lethal. Liev Schreiber lethal entitlement There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world. Liev Schreiber feeling best you world 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. Liev Schreiber beautiful-place ocean beautiful love I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career. Liev Schreiber teachers career great work
