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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.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 67
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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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 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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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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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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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
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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 usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
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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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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 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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