Steve Buscemi Quotes
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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.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.
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I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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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 never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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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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Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.
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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
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I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
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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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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
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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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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
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It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
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Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.
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When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
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Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
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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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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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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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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
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It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
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