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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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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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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 was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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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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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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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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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 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 think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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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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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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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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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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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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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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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