Liev Schreiber Quotes

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

What I've noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you're representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.