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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Steve Buscemi

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Steve Buscemi
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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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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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 did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
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Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.
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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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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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