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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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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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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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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 can't relate to 99% of humanity.
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I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'
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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 never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like 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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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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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 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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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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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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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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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 usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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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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