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.
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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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.'
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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.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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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.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
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No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. An artist is someone who makes art too. He did not invent it. How it started — "to hell with it." It is obvious that it has no progress. The idea of space is given him to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. He fills it with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
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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.
