Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemiis an American actor and film director. Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films, including Parting Glances, New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World, Big Fish, and The Sopranos. He is also known for his appearances in many films by the Coen brothers: Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 December 1957
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.
It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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.
It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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.
Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
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.