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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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Steven Vincent Buscemi
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I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.
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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.
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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'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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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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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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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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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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