Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
-
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.
-
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
-
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
-
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.
-
I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
-
The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
-
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.
-
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
-
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.
-
Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
-
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
-
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.
-
Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a 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.
-
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.
-
What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
-
I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.
-
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
-
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
-
I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
