Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice. "

Related Quotes:

" I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life. "

Steve Buscemi

Fun

Play

Look

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

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

Steve Buscemi

Actor

Responsibility

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny. "

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

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

" I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

Steve Buscemi

Matter

Story

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

Steve Buscemi

Genre

Matter

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

" 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

Know

Review

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

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

Steve Buscemi

Doing

Really

" 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. "

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

" Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. "

Steve Buscemi

Women

Men

" I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct. "

" I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' "

Steve Buscemi

Young

Doing

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

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

" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

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

" I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan. "

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

Steve Buscemi

Loved

Him