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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

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Steve Buscemi
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
Actor
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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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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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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 can't relate to 99% of humanity.
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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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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 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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Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
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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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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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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 suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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