Liev Schreiber
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San Francisco, California, USA
Displaying the kind of off-kilter charm that makes him a natural for leading roles in independent films and character parts in mainstream features, Liev Schreiber has made a name for himself on both circuits. Born October 4, 1967, in San Francisco, Schreiber was raised on New York's Lower East Side. A graduate of Hampshire College in Massachusetts, he initially wanted to become a writer, but later decided to try his hand at acting, training at both London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Yale School of Drama.Schreiber's first acting job was on Broadway, where he appeared in In the Summer House. More theater work followed and in 1994, the actor made his film debut in the Steve Martin comedy Mixed Nuts. The film was an unequivocal flop, although Schreiber's role as a rather muscular transvestite proved to be one of the picture's few memorable features. His next project, the 1995 indie Denise Calls Up, fared a little better; despite almost non-existent box-office ratings, it was rewarded with critical approval. Following more minor film work, he landed the role of a British bouncer in the successful indie flick Party Girl (1995), which also starred nascent indie queen Parker Posey. Schreiber got an introduction to a more mainstream audience thanks to his role as killer Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's mega-hit Scream, a role he reprised in the film's sequel, Scream 2 (1997). The same year, Schreiber had leading roles in two more independent films, The Daytrippers (which again paired him with Posey) and Walking and Talking, as well as a secondary role in the bloated Mel Gibson thriller Ransom. Deftly straddling the divide between Sundance and the studio, Schreiber went on to make three major mainstream pictures in 1998: Phantoms, with Rose McGowan and Ben Affleck; Twilight with Susan Sarandon, Paul Newman, and Gene Hackman; and Sphere with Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone, and Dustin Hoffman. The following year, Schreiber returned to more familiar territory with his role in Tony Goldwyn's small but successful drama A Walk on the Moon. As the man Diane Lane cuckolds for Viggo Mortensen, Schreiber mined endless possibilities from what could have been a narrow role, giving his character the sort of charming, good-intentioned inadequacy that became one of the actor's trademarks.In 2000, Schreiber returned to the role of Cotton Weary a third time to close out the Scream franchise. It was around this time that he also began doing a considerable amount of voice-over work, mainly for PBS's NOVA series. As the decade progressed, Schreiber continued to be a presence in bigger mainstream projects, such as the 2002 adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears. Two years later, he could be seen in another high-profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life-affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house. His 2006 project would be quite a departure from this sweet, poignant tale, as Schreiber took the role of Robert Thorne in John Moore's remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen. Heavily publicized for its "666" release date (June 6th, 2006), the film pleased horror fans, as did Schreiber's performance as husband to Julia Stiles and father to the infamous Damien, a little boy who seems to harbor an evil that at best makes him disturbingly cold and at worst, places him at the crux of the devil's own plan for hell on Earth. Schreiber next went into production on The Painted Veil, an adaptation of the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Playing the playboy whom Naomi Watts cuckolds her husband with, the actor immer
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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47% | A Rainy Day in New York |
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— | 2020 |
68% | Human Capital |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | The Many Lives Of Nick Buoniconti |
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— | 2019 |
97% | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |
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— | 2018 |
90% | Isle of Dogs |
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— | 2018 |
83% | Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Spider-Man: Kohti Hämähäkkiversumia |
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— | 2018 |
46% | My Little Pony: The Movie |
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$21.8M | 2017 |
42% | Goon: Last of the Enforcers |
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— | 2017 |
25% | The Pulitzer at 100 |
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$3.1k | 2017 |
81% | Chuck |
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$0.4M | 2017 |
100% | Finding Babel |
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— | 2016 |
15% | The 5th Wave |
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— | 2016 |
95% | Creed |
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$81.2M | 2015 |
97% | Spotlight |
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— | 2015 |
71% | Pawn Sacrifice |
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$1.7M | 2015 |
81% | Human Capital |
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— | 2015 |
53% | Fading Gigolo |
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$3.2M | 2014 |
18% | The Last Days On Mars |
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— | 2013 |
20% | A Perfect Man |
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$388 | 2013 |
62% | Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve |
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$14.2k | 2013 |
72% | Lee Daniels' The Butler |
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$116.7M | 2013 |
57% | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
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$0.6M | 2013 |
100% | Rescue in the Philippines |
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— | 2013 |
44% | Mental |
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$2.3M | 2013 |
4% | Movie 43 |
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$8.8M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Tapia |
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— | 2012 |
81% | Goon |
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$0.9M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Namath |
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— | 2012 |
34% | Every Day |
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$10.4k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Derek Jeter 3K |
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— | 2011 |
62% | Salt |
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$118.4M | 2010 |
22% | Repo Men |
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$13.2M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Magic and Bird |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Salt (Unrated) |
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— | 2010 |
48% | Taking Woodstock |
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$7.4M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Ted Williams |
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— | 2009 |
37% | X-Men Origins - Wolverine |
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$179.8M | 2009 |
58% | Defiance |
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$28.7M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Elbert Hubbard: An American Original |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Last Extinction |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina |
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— | 2009 |
91% | Operation Filmmaker |
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— | 2008 |
81% | Chicago 10 |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Thrilla in Manila |
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— | 2008 |
27% | Love in the Time of Cholera |
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$4.6M | 2007 |
100% | Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure |
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$23.7M | 2007 |
87% | Constantine's Sword |
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— | 2007 |
95% | Sputnik Fever (Sputnik Mania) |
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— | 2007 |
35% | The Ten |
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$0.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Nature |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | The New Medicine |
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— | 2006 |
74% | The Painted Veil |
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$8M | 2006 |
26% | The Omen |
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$54.6M | 2006 |
67% | Everything is Illuminated |
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$1.7M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Mantle |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Living with Wolves |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team |
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— | 2005 |
75% | Lackawanna Blues |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Reverse of the Curse of the Bambino |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Nine Innings from Ground Zero |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Spinning Boris |
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— | 2004 |
80% | The Manchurian Candidate |
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$65.8M | 2004 |
83% | Broadway: The Golden Age |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Hitler: The Rise of Evil |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Galileo's Battle for the Heavens |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | NOVA: Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies |
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— | 2002 |
51% | Kate & Leopold |
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$47.1M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | NOVA: Search for a Safe Cigarette |
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— | 2001 |
88% | Spring Forward |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | When It Was a Game 3 |
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— | 2000 |
59% | Hamlet |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | NOVA: Lost Tribes of Israel |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 2000 |
83% | The Hurricane |
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— | 1999 |
93% | RKO 281 |
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— | 1999 |
29% | Jakob the Liar |
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— | 1999 |
37% | Desert Blue |
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— | 1999 |
72% | A Walk on the Moon |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | NOVA |
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— | 1999 |
60% | Twilight |
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— | 1998 |
11% | Sphere |
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— | 1998 |
13% | Phantoms |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Babe Ruth |
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— | 1998 |
81% | Scream 2 |
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— | 1997 |
73% | The Daytrippers |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | His & Hers |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Sunshine Boys |
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— | 1997 |
79% | Scream |
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— | 1996 |
75% | Ransom |
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— | 1996 |
96% | Big Night |
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— | 1996 |
88% | Walking and Talking |
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— | 1996 |
77% | Denise Calls Up |
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— | 1996 |
79% | Party Girl |
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— | 1995 |
28% | Mad Love |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Buffalo Girls |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare |
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— | 1995 |
10% | Mixed Nuts |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Lombardi |
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— | 1991 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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NOVA
1974
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72% |
Ray Donovan
2013-2020
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No Score Yet |
Hard Knocks: Training Camp
2001-2020
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No Score Yet |
Secrets of the Dead
2000
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No Score Yet |
America in Color
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
24/7
2007-2019
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90% |
Civilisations
2018
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No Score Yet |
Civilizations
2018
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Today
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
Drunk History
2013
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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No Score Yet |
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
2013
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No Score Yet |
CBS This Morning
2012
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
24/7 Flyers/Rangers: Road to the NHL Winter Classic
2011-2012
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No Score Yet |
Independent Lens
1999
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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No Score Yet |
Nature
1982
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
American Experience
1988
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Quotes from Liev Schreiber's Characters
HBO 24/7 Narrator: | I did it with one hand, but I wasn't gonna say anything. |
Deputy Stu Wargle: | Hey, you girls slipped me a micky! |
Cotton Weary: | How bad is it? |
Gale Weathers: | Just bounced off my ribs. |
Cotton Weary: | Geez, Gale, you got more lives than a cat. |
Winter: | [rattled by underling] "Sir"? Do I look like a "sir" to you? |
Winter: | Sir? Do I look like a "sir" to you? |
Evelyn Salt: | From head to toe. I'm surprised he didn't call you "Your Majesty". |
Evelyn Salt: | From head to toe. I'm surprised he didn't call you "Your Majesty." |
Winter: | I like the ring of that. I think I'd prefer "Your Majesty". |
Winter: | I like the ring of that. I think I'd prefer "Your Majesty." |
Ross Rhea: | You have my respect, whatever that means to you, you got it. But know this shit hard, if ever there comes a time, it's gets down to the morrow and it's you and me, Kid, I will lay you the fuck out. |
Ross Rhea: | Nice hit, eh? |
Sgt. Raymond Shaw: | sgt. shaw, raymond shaw......raymond printess shaw |
Eleanor Prentiss Shaw: | Sergeant Raymond Shaw. |
John Clark: | My favorite line? Clark's order: "Shoot him, Ryan! Shoot him!!" |
John Clark: | Shoot him, Ryan! Shoot him! |
Cotton Weary: | So, you a big 100% Cotton fan? |
Cotton Weary: | What makes you think I have a girlfriend? |
The Voice: | I know you do...I'm right outside her bathroom door. |
The Voice: | I know you do. I'm right outside her bathroom door. |
Cotton Weary: | Who is this? |
The Voice: | She's in the shower. She's got a nice little...voice. |
The Voice: | She's in the shower. She's got a nice little, voice. |
Cotton Weary: | Lovable and fu**ed up Sidney Prescott. Everybody's favorite little victim!! |
Cotton Weary: | Lovable and fu**ed up Sidney Prescott. Everybody's favorite little victim! |
Gale Weathers: | (about the killer) - Is she dead? |
Gale Weathers: | (about the killer) Is she dead? |
Sidney Prescott: | I don't know. They always come back. |
Cotton Weary: | Woah! |
Sidney Prescott: | (Sidney shoots Debbie again; in the head) - Just in case. |
Sidney Prescott: | (Sidney shoots Debbie again; in the head) Just in case. |
Cotton Weary: | Jeez Gale, you've got more lives than a cat. |
Cotton Weary: | Look, it's not like we're getting paid here also with what I've got going the side with a 900 number. Look Sid, I understand that you don't like the press, I respect that but Sid, (Cotton laughs psychotically), it's Diane Sawyer! Hello! |
Sidney Prescott: | Look, between the movie and the book, people know the truth. There's already been enough exposure. Why would you want anymore exposure? |
Cotton Weary: | Well, I don't know Sid, cause maybe I fu**ing deserve a little exposure! Come Sid, I mean, you drag my name through the mud, everyone thinks I am some kind of psycho, and all I am asking is for one little fu**ing Diane Sawyer interview. Now, I don't think I am being unreasonable. |
Cotton Weary: | I don't know about homicide, but you've definitely got me for raising my voice in a public library. |
Victor Creed/Sabretooth: | I despise my humanity as much as you cherish yours. And I will come for you without mercy. |
Victor Creed/Sabretooth: | I am an animal who dreamed he was a man. But the dream is over and the beast is awake. And I will come for you, because it's my nature. |
Victor Creed/Sabretooth: | Nobody gets to kill you but me! |
Victor Creed/Sabretooth: | [Logan reveals his adamantium claws] .. Oooh, shiny! Tell me something, Jimmy. Do you even know how to kill me? |
Victor Creed/Sabretooth: | [Logan reveals his adamantium claws] Oooh, shiny! Tell me something, Jimmy. Do you even know how to kill me? |
Cotton Weary: | Do you like scary movies? |
Frank: | You owe it to your family. You owe it to yourself. |
Cotton Weary: | "What's your favorite scary movie?" |