Stanley Tucci Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.”

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

“I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.”

“I was dissatisfied just being an actor.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”