Buscemi Actor Quotes & Sayings

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

Is it me, or did we just stop in the median and the driver got out?" Larry asks.
"He has to go peewee," Jade informs us.
"Good to know I'm not demented," Larry remarks. "Merely imperiled. — Daniel Asa Rose

I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living. — Steve Buscemi

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

I know a lot of stuff, but to get some stuff near you need to get access, but the access isn't easy. Most cases I won't give it,... make me to give it!?! — Deyth Banger

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

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

You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it. — Catherine Hardwicke

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. — Simone Weil

Milo had been earning many distinctions for himself. He had flown fearlessly into danger and criticism by selling petroleum and ball bearings to Germany at good prices in order to make a good profit and help maintain a balance of power between the contending forces. His nerve under fire was graceful and infinite. With a devotion to purpose above and beyond the line of duty, he had then raised the price of food in his mess halls so high that all officers and enlisted men had to turn over all their pay to him in order to eat. Their alternative - there was an alternative, of course, since Milo detested coercion and was a vocal champion of freedom of choice - was to starve. — Joseph Heller

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. — Steve Buscemi

The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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. — Steve Buscemi

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware. — Jonah Goldberg

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor. — Steve Buscemi

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters. — Roberto Duran

True beauty after all consists in purity of heart. With — Mahatma Gandhi

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems. — Rony Abovitz

It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity. — Steve Buscemi