Steve Buscemi Quotes
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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 did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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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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There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
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I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
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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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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 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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I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
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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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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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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 had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.
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Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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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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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It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
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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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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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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.