Liev Schreiber Quotes

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.

People say, 'What are your hobbies?' I say, 'I've been doing shows ever since I was a kid.' When I left college, all I wanted to be was a musical theater chick. I auditioned tons. It just didn't pan out.

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival that I felt like my career started.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I remember when I got my Equity card doing the Scottish play at the Public Theater with Angela Bassett and Alec Baldwin. Alec thought I should just be Butler Harner, but I thought it would make people laugh if they had to call me Butler.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.