42+ Steve Buscemi Quotes (Quirky, Versatile And Iconic)

Steve Buscemi is an American actor, director, and writer. He is best known for his roles in films such as Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, and The Big Lebowski. He has also had notable roles in television shows like The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire.

Top 10 Steve Buscemi Quotes

1. Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
5. 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.
6. It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
7. 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.
8. When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
9. It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
10. 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.

Steve Buscemi Short Quotes

• They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
• I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
• I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
• I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
• The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
• It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

Steve Buscemi Famous Quotes And Sayings

What 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

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. — Steve Buscemi

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. — Steve Buscemi

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

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better. — Steve Buscemi

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with. — Steve Buscemi

We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that. — Steve Buscemi

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

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way. — Steve Buscemi

I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long. — Steve Buscemi

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

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

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?" — Steve Buscemi

I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going. — Steve Buscemi

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. — Steve Buscemi

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 Buscemi

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream. — Steve Buscemi

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of. — Steve Buscemi

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. — Steve Buscemi

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. — Steve Buscemi

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

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

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. — Steve Buscemi

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.' — Steve Buscemi

I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition. — Steve Buscemi

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

Life Lessons by Steve Buscemi

1. Steve Buscemi has taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter what the odds. He started out as a firefighter and worked his way up to becoming a successful actor.
2. He has also shown us that it's important to stay humble and be kind to others, no matter how successful you become.
3. Finally, Steve Buscemi has taught us that it's important to take risks and be brave enough to try new things, even if it means stepping out of your comfort zone.