Top 45 Quotes by Stanley Tucci

I never go overbudget on my movies.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.