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Stanley Tucci [1960-0] American

Rank: 103
Actor

Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, producer and film director.
Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones. He won two Emmy Awards for his performances in Winchell and Monk.

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I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.		101
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.		102
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.		103
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.		104
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.		105
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.		106
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.		107
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.		108
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.		109
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.		110
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.		111
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.		112
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.		113
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.		114
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.		115
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.		116
I'm a control freak. Totally.		117
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.		118
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.		119
I make time to write.		120
I write in the mornings. During my down time.		121
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.		122
You gotta make the movie you want to make.		123
I would rather just do the things I want to do.		124
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.		125
I never go overbudget on my movies.		126
I like to see how I can do it for less money.		201
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.		202
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.		203
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.		204
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.		205
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.		206
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.		207
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.		208
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.		209
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.		210
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.		211
I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.		212
I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.		213
I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.		214
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.		215
I don't like not being busy.		216
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.		217
I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.		218
I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.		219

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