Top 75 Quotes by Steve Buscemi

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

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

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

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.

I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

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.