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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
Film Producer
Firefighter
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Director
Brooklyn
New York
Steven Vincent Buscemi
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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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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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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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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 didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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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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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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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'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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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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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
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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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