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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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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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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 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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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 don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
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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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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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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 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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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'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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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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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
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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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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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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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