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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.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Firefighter
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Television Director
Brooklyn
New York
Steven Vincent Buscemi
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I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.
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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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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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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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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 don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
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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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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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