Liev Schreiber on emotional isolation

“Acting kind of insulates you from the world. Ironically you go into this job that you think is going to allow you to be expressive to people and to connect to the world.”

Liev Schreiber continued, “And the more successful you are in a strange way, the less emotionally connected you are and the less often people emotionally connect to you.” [From the page: Acting 3.]

Ellen Muth on sources of inspiration

Ellen Muth says one of the reasons she didn’t move to L.A. was “I wanted to stay out of the whole twenty four hour party scene, the whole atmosphere..

“I mean Hollywood is just this industry, and if you don’t live outside of that world, you never have anything to learn from, to use as real characters.

“TV and film is not based on actors, it’s based on real people, and living in Connecticut, I meet people who are not in this industry. Living in L.A. I would never have had that chance to see and experience and create new characters.”

[From Just Push Play audio interview [part 1], Jan 2008.]

[The photo is probably from the set of the new Dead Like Me Movie (a direct to DVD movie based on her hit TV series), due for release in July.]
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Ellen Muth, creative inspiration, film industry unreality

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02.20.08 |
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