Quote by Steve Buscemi
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a

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. Before going into a fire, theres the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. – Steve Buscemi

Other quotes by Steve Buscemi

Communication is the key, and its 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. – Steve Buscemi

Category:
communication
Read Quote

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

Category:
Attitude
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Actors, Acting
category

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, theres a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor youll be. Youll have more to pull on. – Jacqueline Bisset

Category:
Actors, Acting

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. – Thomas Campbell

Category:
Actors, Acting

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. – Robert Bresson

Category:
Actors, Acting

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. – Bertolt Brecht

Category:
Actors, Acting

Random Quotes

Speak the truth and shame the devil. – Proverb

Category:
Evil

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. – John Hume

Category:
Equality

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek

Category:
History

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. – Mohandas Gandhi

Category:
Promises