Liev Schreiber
American actor
Acting – it’s also the best, though.
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Time & hindsight
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗
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I have worked in McDonald’s.
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I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
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View profile →Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
That you’re stronger than you think you are.
I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
I really admire Bonnie Raitt. She is a singer songwriter who has been doing what she has been doing for so many years and she recently won the song of the year Grammy for Just Like That. I loved the validation that creativity never stops, you can keep doing the things that you love.
I was doing a photoshoot right after an awards show and I was talking about someone whose makeup I really didn’t like. I said: “She’s gorgeous, I don’t understand how a makeup artist could encourage that?” And the makeup artist on the photoshoot said: “I did her makeup.”
Anything and everything.
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