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All Stanley Tucci Quotes
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
Stanley Tucci
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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
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When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci
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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
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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
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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
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Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
Stanley Tucci
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I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
Stanley Tucci
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People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
Stanley Tucci
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I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley Tucci
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I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
Stanley Tucci
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I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
Stanley Tucci
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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
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