Steve Buscemi Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.