Stanley Tucci famous quotes

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

#Moving #Cameras

The most I've ever done was twenty-something, but that's wasn't because I wanted to. I feel like to me it's usually somewhere between two and- no, it's very hard to say because it really depends up on the shot, you know? If it's a complicated master shot and you know that this is the only thing that you're doing for that scene, a complicated one-er, you're going to maybe end up doing a few more takes than you normally would. But I'm not a big believer in doing tons and tons and tons of takes.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Two #Twenty Somethings #Done

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.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Acting #Actors #Way

Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Drama #Play #Goal

3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Acting #Littles #Add

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Years #People #Fans

I think everybody has a little bit of an ***** inside of them.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Thinking #Littles

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Character #Play #People

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Want #Actors #Safe

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Acting #Way #Serious

The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Running #Kids #Play

You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Successful #Serious #Way

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Men #Good Man #Bananas

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

#Taken #Roles #Gangsters

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Writing #Three #Wake Up

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

#Night #Bigs

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.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Design #Directors #Doe

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Projects #Wanted

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Dream #Fighting #Vision

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Motivation #Matter #Needs

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

#Law #People #Broadway

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.
-- Stanley Tucci

#New York #Thinking #People

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Actors #Firsts

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Just Being #Actors #Dissatisfied

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Someday #Bigger #Projects

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Kids #Actors #Wanted

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.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Change #Believe #Diapers

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

#Mean #Way #Genius

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Movie #People #Bigs

I never go overbudget on my movies.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Movie

[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Dog #Character #Independent

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Kids #Past

I write in the mornings. During my down time.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Morning #Writing

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

#Silly #Way #Film

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

#Acting #Use

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Challenges

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Want #Kind #Film

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.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Character #Reality #Blessing

I'm a control freak. Totally.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Freak #Control Freak

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Interesting #Feelings #Our Actions

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

#Long #Stuff #Hospitality

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Filmmaker #Practicals

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Encouragement #Cutting #Lines