Liev Schreiber Net Worth

Liev Schreiber's Quotes

• It's not easy being 6' 3" and being called 'Huggy'. - on the nickname he's had since childhood.
• I think a certain amount of Ricky's rage and profanity has been a nice vent from the frustrations of the editing room, so it's great to come out screaming profanities at the audience for an hour and a half after eight hours of trying to be diplomatic in the editing room. on editing 'Everything is Illuminated' at the same time as acting as foul-mouthed Ricky Roma in "Glengarry Glen Ross.
• Trying to escape the powder puff and the man blush was the primary motivation for this whole endeavor. It's weird. You think, 'Now I'm going to direct, and they won't give me such a hard time about how I look.' But sure enough, there they are, coming at you with the powder puff and the man blush. [on the make-up required to 'hide' his nose]
• That's the hard thing about adapting a book that's so well loved. It's like playing Hamlet. The audience doesn't buy it, because they're Hamlet. How could you possibly be Hamlet when Hamlet is them? It's one of those difficult things where a good writer gives the reader ownership of the material. They develop an intimate relationship with it and become its protectors, and rightly so. Whether they like the movie or not, there is something a bit outrageous about exploiting their private story.
• If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic. I do think great stories have a way of retelling themselves. The medium is so young that so much is not content-driven, it's about stars and the studio. But when we have gotten through that phase of film, which I figure we probably will in about 15 or 20 years, films will be able to stand on the legs of their stories.

Interesting Facts about Liev Schreiber

1. Grew up in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. Graduated from Friends Seminary High School in Manhattan.
2. Attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Hampshire College and graduated with a Master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1992.
3. Son of Tell Schreiber and Heather Schreiber. Has four half-brothers and one-half sister, including younger half-brother, Pablo Schreiber.
4. His mother says she named him after her favorite author, Lev Tolstoy, whose Russian name was Lev (pronounced "l'yehv" -- the letter e in Russian is pronounced "yeh," and the standard English transliteration of the name is Lev). His father says he was named after a doctor in San Francisco who saved his mother's life. The word schreiber means "writer" in German.
5. Attended Friends Seminary High School in New York City with Amanda Peet when he was a senior and she was a freshman.
6. His father has German, Swiss, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Belgian Flemish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. His mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland and Russia).
7. Accompanied his girlfriend Naomi Watts to the King Kong (2005) premiere in New York. It was their first public appearance together. On February 28, 2007, they announced they are expecting their first child.
8. Has worked with Rose McGowan in two different horror films: Scream (1996) and Phantoms (1998).
9. Along with David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Jamie Kennedy, he is one of only five actors to appear in all three "Scream" films.
10. After his parents divorced, he and his siblings saw their father very little during childhood.
11. The role for which he won his first Tony Award (Richard Roma in "Glengarry Glen Ross") also won Joe Mantegna the Tony Award best featured actor in a play for the same role 21 years earlier in 1984. The 2005 production was directed by Joe Mantello.
12. Growing up, his mother didn't allow him to watch color movies. The first color movie he saw was Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) in 1977.
13. Was a fan favorite for the role of District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight (2008), and expressed interest in it. He eventually lost out to Aaron Eckhart.
14. Became a father for the first time at age 39 when his ex-fiancée Naomi Watts gave birth to their son Alexander Pete Schreiber (Sasha Schreiber) on July 25, 2007.
15. Became a father for he second time at age 41 when his ex-fiancée Naomi Watts gave birth to their child Samuel Kai Schreiber on December 14, 2008.
16. Both he and Gary Sinise appear as criminal co-conspirators in Ransom (1996). Approximately ten years later, in a complete turnabout, both actors independently took roles as the crime-fighting team leaders of the widely popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) television series. Gary's CSI: NY (2004) character is "Detective Mac Taylor" and Liev's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) is "Michael Keppler".
17. Has appeared in two movies with Hugh Jackman : Kate & Leopold (2001) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
18. Has appeared in two movies with Ben Affleck: Phantoms (1998) and The Sum of All Fears (2002).
19. Counts A Walk on the Moon (1999) as a personal favorite of his own films.
20. His first name is often mispronounced as "leave" or "LEE-ev." It is actually pronounced "lee-EV.".