Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believed I was invincible.
-
As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
-
If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
-
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
-
I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
-
I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
-
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
-
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
-
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
-
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
-
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
-
I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
-
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
-
Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
-
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
-
I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.
-
Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
-
Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
-
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
-
Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work as close to the first writer's intention as possible. A good translator's devotion to that goal is unwavering. But what never should be forgotten or overlooked is the obvious fact that what we read in a translation is the translator's writing. The inspiration is the original work, certainly, and thoughtful literary translators approach that work with great deference and respect, but the execution of the book in another language is the task of the translator, and that work should be judged and evaluated on its own terms. Still, most reviewers do not acknowledge the fact of translation except in the most perfunctory way, and a significant majority seem incapable of shedding light on the value of the translation or on how it reflects or illuminates the original.
-
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
-
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
-
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
-
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
