Stanley Tucci Quotes

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

- Stanley Tucci

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

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Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

- Stanley Tucci

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

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I'm a control freak. Totally.

- Stanley Tucci

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

- Stanley Tucci

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

- Stanley Tucci

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

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The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

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Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

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I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

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I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

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People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

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My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

- Stanley Tucci

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

- Stanley Tucci

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

- Stanley Tucci

I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.

- Stanley Tucci

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

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I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

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I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

- Stanley Tucci

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

- Stanley Tucci

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

- Stanley Tucci

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

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I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

- Stanley Tucci

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

- Stanley Tucci

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

- Stanley Tucci

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

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I like to see how I can do it for less money.

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I write in the mornings. During my down time.

- Stanley Tucci

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

- Stanley Tucci

I don't like not being busy.

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I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.

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I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

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And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

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I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

- Stanley Tucci