I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
— Liev Schreiber
I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
You should never ask actors about politics.
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
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.
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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.
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
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.
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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.
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.
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.
It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
I manage to hide in my movies.
Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.
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.
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.
Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.
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 was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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.
If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
