Stanley Tucci Quotes

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

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