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What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Topics: Atheist, Eye, Guy

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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.

Topics: Character, Three, Credit

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

Topics: Mean, People, Want

I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.

source: - "Steve Buscemi talks 'Sopranos,' 'Interview'". www.today.com. July 11, 2007.

Topics: Thinking, Trying, Different

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

Topics: Interesting, Interesting Things, Really Interesting

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.

Topics: Moving, Giving, Details

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Topics: Thinking, Heaven, Earth, Lost Dreams

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

Topics: Growing Up, Opportunity, Play

I don't tend to think of the characters i play 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.

Topics: Struggle, Character, Thinking

We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.

Topics: Strong, Art, Moving

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

Topics: Fire, People, Stories, Story People

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

Topics: Stuff, Mainstream

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

Topics: Play, Trying, Matter

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

source: - Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2001.

Topics: Real, Training, Theatre

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.

Topics: New York, Character, Cities

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Topics: Communication, Keys, Actors, Communication Is Key

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

Topics: Humanity, Relate

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

source: - Guardian interviews at the BFI with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16 , 2001.

Topics: People, Situation, Recognise

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

Topics: Moving, Knowing, Acting

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

Topics: Senior, School, Years

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

Topics: Writing, Masters, Plans

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

Topics: Training, Actors

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

source: - "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

Topics: People, Stories, Telling Stories

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

Topics: Directors, Really Great

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

Topics: Men, Play, Roles

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,'

source: - "The Drama Actor Roundtable" by Matthew Belloni and Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2011.

Topics: Teeth, Helping, Dentist

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

Topics: Writing, Stories, Structure, Writing Dialogue

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

Topics: Escaping, Bail, Film

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.

Topics: Thinking, Voice, Stealing

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

Topics: Matter, Genre

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

Topics: Hate, People, Hatred, Ghost World

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?

Topics: Retirement, Years, Office

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.

Topics: Jobs, Theatre, Acting, Fireman, Great Job

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

Topics: Firsts, Roles, Glances, Parting

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

Topics: Years, Way, Casts

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

Topics: Television, Seven, Hours

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

source: - Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

Topics: Long, Matter, Materials

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.

Topics: Talking, Tree, Feelings, Losing Control

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

Topics: Crazy, Space, Special, Outer Space, Armageddon

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

Topics: Independent, Film, Scene

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

Topics: Thinking, Serious, Actors

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

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

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.

Topics: Careers, People, Done, Career Path, Starting Out

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

Topics: Actors, Scripts

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Adventure, Doors, Hats

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

Topics: Character, Casting, Persons

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Topics: Attitude, Serious, Bob

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

Topics: Character, Thinking, Play

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

Topics: Magic, Phases

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.

Topics: Thinking, Interviews, Way

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

Topics: Father, Thinking, Tree

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

Topics: Trends, Canada, Location

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

Topics: Responsibility, Actors, Directors

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

Topics: Comedian, Sitcom

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Humorous, Mean, Profound, Junk Mail, Cinematic

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

Topics: Character, Matter, Stuff

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

Topics: Character, Interesting, Elements

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

Topics: Character, Writing, Starting Over

I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Fun, People, Passionate

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

Topics: Mistake, Want, Way, Mistakes Happen

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.

source: - "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

Topics: Thinking, Anxiety, Missing

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Real, Sound, Bigs

I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.

source: - "Steve Buscemi talks 'Sopranos,' 'Interview'". The Associated Press Interview, www.nbcnews.com. August 4, 2010.

Topics: Crush, Independent, Thinking, Distributors

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Week, Ends

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.

Topics: Wise, Growing Up, Heart, Moxie, Long Island

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Son, My Son, Responsible

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.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Fun, Believe, Independent

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.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Directors, Actors, Done

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

source: - "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

Topics: Brother, Father, Son, Sisters And Friends

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.

source: - "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

Topics: Ties, Long, Guy

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