141 Quotes by Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

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

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

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.

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.