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I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

Steve Buscemi

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Steve Buscemi
Age: 67
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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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 never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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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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There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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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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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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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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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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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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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 always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
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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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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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