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.
Steve BuscemiI was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
Steve BuscemiCharacter 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.
Steve BuscemiI had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.
Steve BuscemiWhat'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.
Steve BuscemiI hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
Steve BuscemiWhat 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?
Steve Buscemi