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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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Steven Vincent Buscemi
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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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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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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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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 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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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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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 usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
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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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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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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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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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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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