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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: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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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?
Steve Buscemi
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.
Steve Buscemi
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
Steve Buscemi
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
Steve Buscemi
Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
Steve Buscemi
Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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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 have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.
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I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
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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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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.
Steve Buscemi
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.'
Steve Buscemi
I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.
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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.
Steve Buscemi
The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
Steve Buscemi
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.
Steve Buscemi
I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
Steve Buscemi
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
Steve Buscemi
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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