Steve Buscemi Quotes

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Steve Buscemi

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 13, 1957

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

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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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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

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It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

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All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

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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 didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

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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'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

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I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

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With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

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I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

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It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

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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 don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

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