Stanley Tucci Quotes

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Stanley Tucci

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 11, 1960

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

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I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

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Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

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I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

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As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

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As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

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I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

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People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

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I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

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I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

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I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

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Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

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Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

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I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

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I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

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I'm a control freak. Totally.

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I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

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The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

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I make time to write.

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