Steve Buscemi Quotes

Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was.

Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.

There's movies that I would've loved to be in that I just wasn't even considered for because they need a name. And that happens so frequently that, after a while - from a creative standpoint - you just want to be able to have that opportunity to work with the best people. That opportunity is available to you with a certain level of notoriety.

I almost turned down '8 Mile.' I was due to start 'ER,' and I learned they really wanted me to be in '8 Mile.' I didn't know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.

Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne's movie, you're going to go for it, or you'd be a crazy person.

Before signing 'Dawat-E-Ishq,' I came across few more offers, but none of them interested me. This film has a soul, and I went for it.

Unless they excite me, I don't sign a movie.

Of course I want to do films that I feel I like and I feel like are either entertaining or different sort of value attached to it which I personally lean towards, and that's how I make my choices.

The approach I take in selecting a script is based on what I fancy from the the scripts I'm offered.

I've always been selective about my roles.

People approach you for the work they have seen you do. I don't think people see me as a lover boy dancing around, so I haven't received a role of that kind. I'm going to do roles that appeal to me.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

They called and said, "I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President." And I said, "OK. Say yes." And they were like, "Do you want to read it maybe?" And I was like, "No, I just want to be the president."