Top 33 Stanley Tucci Quotes

I don’t like to move the camera that much anyway.

So yes, I hope to act in other people’s movies, big and small, because that’s how I make my living, really.

The majority of directors I’ve worked with didn’t know how to talk to actors.

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.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

I’m a control freak. Totally.

I’m not saying they won’t be bigger projects someday.

I’d read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell’s stuff for a long time.

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.

I can remember the World’s Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn’t doing that.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

I’m not interested in wasting money on a project.

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.

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

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I’m actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

And I love doing my own projects; that’s what I’ve always wanted to do.

I love directing – it’s always so involving, so challenging.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

The thing is, I’m a very practical filmmaker.

I mean, Scorsese’s a genius, and that’s one way of shooting.

I would rather just do the things I want to do.

I don’t like not being busy.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I’ve always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

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