Best Steve Buscemi Quotes

#1. I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

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#2. I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

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#3. 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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#4. The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

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#5. 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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#6. I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

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#7. I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.

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#8. 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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#9. Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

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

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#11. It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

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#12. 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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#13. I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

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#17. I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

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#18. 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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#19. They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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#20. 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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#21. It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity.

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

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

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct.

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#30. I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

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