Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

Steve Buscemi

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• Men always like what the ladies like.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Men
  • Like
  • Always

• The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Career

• I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Language
  • Gujarati

• Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Space
  • Go

• I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.

  

  Alex Weisman
  • History
  • Community
  • Chicago

• I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Confidence
  • Victory
  • Winner

• He governed as if he felt predestined to never die...

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Never
  • Felt

• Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Play
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• You cannot pray them out of hell.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Hell
  • Pray

• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Business
  • Reflection
  • Intellect

• ... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• I sat two long hours arguing with the Lord Chancellor, upon the bare floor… With many flattering words, he tried to persuade me to leave my opinion… I said that I would rather die than break my faith

  

  Anne Askew
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Opinion

• By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Remember
  • Drunk
  • Serving

• If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Earth
  • Calling
  • Draws

• Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Power
  • Positive

• What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Drug
  • Behavior
  • Suicide

• I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Always

• I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

  

  Miranda July
  • Happy
  • Stop
  • Happens

• Then, you also have that, we all have that sense of wanting to belong. We all have that road-rage, you can relate to that road-rage because you're so frustrated. The sense of frustration, the sense of getting caught, doing something wrong, all those are sort of universal emotions and you just have to make it specific to yourself and you channel this, I don't know what it is, but this inner self and then try to capture the vulnerability.

  

  Bostin Christopher
  • Emotions
  • Frustration
  • Relate

• I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Wanting
  • Magic Kit