Latest Stanley Tucci Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.

  Stanley Tucci

  Serial Killer, Information, Killers

  "Death and Afterlife in The Lovely Bones". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. December 18, 2009.

• Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.

  Stanley Tucci

  Fighting, Italian, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

  Stanley Tucci

  Sometimes, Complicated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

  Stanley Tucci

  Funny Things, People, Wish

  Source: collider.com

• What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

  Stanley Tucci

  Together, Connections, Littles

  Source: collider.com

• As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.

  Stanley Tucci

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

  Source: collider.com

• I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

  Stanley Tucci

  Teenager, Father, Hair

  Source: collider.com

• As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

  Stanley Tucci

  Style, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.

  Stanley Tucci

  Smart, People, Way

  Source: collider.com

• I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Directors, Use

  Source: collider.com

• There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

  Stanley Tucci

  Kids, Talking, Wife

  Source: collider.com

• Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

  Stanley Tucci

  Directors, Want, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

• I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

  Stanley Tucci

  Hate, Moving, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

• I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

  Stanley Tucci

  Kids, Thinking, Important

  Source: collider.com

• The most I've ever done was twenty-something, but that's wasn't because I wanted to. I feel like to me it's usually somewhere between two and- no, it's very hard to say because it really depends up on the shot, you know? If it's a complicated master shot and you know that this is the only thing that you're doing for that scene, a complicated one-er, you're going to maybe end up doing a few more takes than you normally would. But I'm not a big believer in doing tons and tons and tons of takes.

  Stanley Tucci

  Two, Twenties, Twenty Somethings

  Source: collider.com

• 3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.

  Stanley Tucci

  Acting, Add, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.

  Stanley Tucci

  Drama, Play, Want Something

  Source: collider.com

• The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

  Stanley Tucci

  Years, People, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

  Stanley Tucci

  Thinking, Littles, Bits

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Play, People

  "Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci Talk SOME VELVET MORNING, Making a Movie in One Space with Two Actors, 1:30 TRAIN, CATCHING FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

• If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

  Stanley Tucci

  Want, Actors, Safe

  "Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci Talk SOME VELVET MORNING, Making a Movie in One Space with Two Actors, 1:30 TRAIN, CATCHING FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

• The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

  Stanley Tucci

  Running, Kids, Play

• Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

  Stanley Tucci

  Acting, Serious, Roles

  "Stanley Tucci and Sophia Myles Talk TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, Filming Action Scenes, Working with Michael Bay, and Their Favorite Bay Movies". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. June 17, 2014.

• You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.

  Stanley Tucci

  Successful, Way, Serious

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com