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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.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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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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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 like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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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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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 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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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility 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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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 didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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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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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 never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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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.
Steve Buscemi
I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
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