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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: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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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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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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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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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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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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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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Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
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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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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 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 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'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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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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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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 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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