Steve Buscemi Quotes Page 2

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

“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.”

“My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.”

“Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.”

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

“They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.”

“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?”

“What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.”

“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.”

“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.”