Steve Buscemi Quotes
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.
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I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
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I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
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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.
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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
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Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
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Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.
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It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
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I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.
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I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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We both with Jo Andres think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.
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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
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It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.
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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.
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I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.