Stanley Tucci (/ˈtuːtʃi/; born November 11, 1960) is an American character actor, writer, producer, and film director.
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.
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. "
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
I'm a control freak. Totally.
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.
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
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.
If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
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.
Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.