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Steve Buscemi Inspirational Quotes (44)

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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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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: OK, what if you tried this? or What would happen if ... ?
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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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 was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
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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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Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
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I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.
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I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
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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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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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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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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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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 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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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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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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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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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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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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