Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
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What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.
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I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
