Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I love doing kids' films.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
