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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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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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'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
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There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season of Mary and Jane. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
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Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
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There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
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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.
