Liev Schreiber
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"Isaac Liev Schreiber" is an American Film actor/actor, Film producer/producer, Film director/director, and screenwriter. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Cinema of the United States/Hollywood films, including the Scream (franchise)/Scream trilogy of horror films, Phantoms (film)/Phantoms, The Sum of All Fears (film)/The Sum of All Fears, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Salt (2010 film)/Salt, Taking Woodstock and Goon (film)/Goon. Schreiber is also a respected stage actor, having performed in several Broadway theatre/Broadway productions. In 2005, Schreiber won a Tony Award as Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play/Best Featured Actor for his performance in the play Glengarry Glen Ross. That year, Schreiber also made his debut as a film director and writer with Everything Is Illuminated (film)/Everything Is Illuminated, based on the Everything Is Illuminated/novel of the same name. He also plays the eponymous lead character on the Showtime series Ray Donovan (TV Series)/Ray Donovan. Notably, Schreiber also narrates the HBO series 24/7 (TV series)/24/7, as well as various PBS programs.

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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.

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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

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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.

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I manage to hide in my movies.

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If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

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My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

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It was really overwhelming to see the way that people responded - the kind of class and grace, and compassion and support, and resourcefulness that people showed. It was almost like rather than knocking us down, Sept. 11 kind of stepped us up. I was very impressed with that. It showed me that there's really nothing we can't handle.

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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.

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You should never ask actors about politics.

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