Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

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• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Both

• I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Small

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Financial
  • Efficiency

• I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Husband
  • Catholic
  • Feminist

• You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Choose
  • Content

• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Support
  • Understand

• If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Stop
  • Positive

• Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Reading
  • Ideas
  • Show

• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Free
  • Ego
  • Actions

• I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Treat

• People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Distance
  • Grief
  • Depth

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Actors
  • Certain
  • Clear

• Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Beauty
  • Leadership
  • Knows

• I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Movies
  • Actors