Liev Schreiber Quotes

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.

I actually grew up hearing this a lot: 'If you're an actor, you can only be an actor, and you have to just do that.' But in order to be a good actor, you have to draw on life experiences. To only concentrate on acting, you're cutting yourself off.

People forget that the more we know about the world - about people, cultures, and about life - the stronger we are as actors because the more we can bring to our characters.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Regardless of the success of a drama or film, I will be satisfied if viewers say that my acting has progressed and has gained more depth.

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.

What happened in my life made me a better artist.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.

You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.