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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happy
  • Films
  • Liking

• 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.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
  • Artists

• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Films
  • Cry
  • Even

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• I love doing kids' films.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kids
  • Doing
  • Films

• '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.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
  • Films
  • Lot

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence

• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Working
  • Films

• I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Films
  • Critic
  • DIsliked

• I prefer doing feature films.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Doing
  • Films
  • Prefer

• Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Me
  • Body
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • European

• 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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • High
  • Small
  • Films

• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Knows
  • Doe
  • Roles

• My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Money
  • Faith
  • Roles

• The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Pressure
  • Convictions
  • Counts

• I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Forgotten
  • Scream

• All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Films
  • Roles
  • Leading Man