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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: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Firefighter
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Steven Vincent Buscemi
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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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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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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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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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