Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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I always liked spy stories.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.
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The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.
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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
