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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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?'.
-
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
-
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.
-
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
-
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.
-
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
-
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.
-
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
-
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.
-
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
-
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.
-
I always liked spy stories.
-
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
-
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
-
I believe in music because it has the power of change.
-
Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
-
Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
-
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.
-
I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
-
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
-
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
-
Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.
-
You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more.
-
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.
