Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Steve Buscemi

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

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• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

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• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

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• I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

  

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• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

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• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

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• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

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• I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

  

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• Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

  

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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  

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• Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

  

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• You must know what you are capable of.

  

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

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• Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

  

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• In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

  

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• I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Society
  • Characters
  • Losers