Steve Buscemi Quotes

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

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.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

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?

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

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

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.'

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.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play 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.

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

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

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.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

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.

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

I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

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.

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.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

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.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

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

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.