Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

Steve Buscemi

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• Burning Building

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  Edmund Morgan
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• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

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• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

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• I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.

  

  Patrick Wang
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• I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
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• When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Change
  • Myself
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• I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Time
  • Love
  • Job

• You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Talking
  • Social Media

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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  • Want
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• I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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  • Home
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• East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Race
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• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

  

  Aristotle
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  • State
  • Noble

• I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.

  

  Christine Sinclair
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• It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Character
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• But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
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• My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Work
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• What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Culture
  • Celebrity

• When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Job
  • Fireman
  • Burning Building