Steve Buscemi Character Quotations

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

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

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

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

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.

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.

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 they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. 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 way.