Casting Quotes by Steve Buscemi

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

— Steve Buscemi

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those…

— Steve Buscemi

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

— Steve Buscemi

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

— Steve Buscemi

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than…

— Steve Buscemi

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…

— Steve Buscemi

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

— Steve Buscemi

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…

— Steve Buscemi

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I…

— Steve Buscemi

When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole…

— Steve Buscemi

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…

— Steve Buscemi