Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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I can handle ups and downs.
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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
