Stanley Tucci quotes

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. (Stanley Tucci)
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.
Stanley Tucci
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
Stanley Tucci
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
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
Stanley Tucci
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
Stanley Tucci
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
Stanley Tucci
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
Stanley Tucci
I never go overbudget on my movies.
Stanley Tucci
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)
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
Stanley Tucci
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
Stanley Tucci
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
Stanley Tucci
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
Stanley Tucci
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
Stanley Tucci
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
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
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
Stanley Tucci
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
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. (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.
Stanley Tucci
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.
Stanley Tucci
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
Stanley Tucci
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
Stanley Tucci