Steve Buscemi Quotes

"It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Play)

"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Acting, School)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Favorite, Mail)

"My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Actor, Theatre, Training)

"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Actor, Responsibility)

"The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: First, Parting)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Time, Film, Space)

"They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Prison)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Cooperation, Prison)

"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Life, Father, Parents, Trees)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Control, Feeling, Hearing, Losing, Production, Talking, Trees)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Beginning, Being, Film, Question)

"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Writing)

"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Canada, Care, Now)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Society, People, Feeling)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: People, Ideas, Vision, Brothers, Film, Want)

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

"Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Attitude)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Actors, Communication, Forget, Key, Talk)

"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Television)

"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Martin)

"I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Movies, Actors)

"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Hope)

"I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: People, Want)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Character)

"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."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: End, Voice)

"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Years)

"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: People)

"It doesn't matter to me what the genre is."
- Steve Buscemi

"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Acting, Friends)

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