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I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

Steve Buscemi

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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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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 like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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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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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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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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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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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 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.
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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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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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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 made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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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