Quotes by Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Nivola

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

Children

Growing Up

Kids

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

Acting

Consuming

Selfish

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven’t been the star of a hit film.

Film

Notoriety

Stars

Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I’d never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression that he didn’t really care that much because he was so laid-back. Sometimes we’d finish filming hours before the day was over, which is just unthinkable in any other film experience I’ve had. I couldn’t believe that Barry had the passion for it.

Believe

Care

Passion

I don’t separate Robert DeNiro’s comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his work, is that he doesn’t do anything unless something happens to him in scenes – unless something happens to make him react. He never came in with a set idea of how he was going to do it, he never came in with guns blazing. He would just show up and wait to see what happened.

Gun

Serious

Waiting

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

Actors

Boundaries

Wanted

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I’m reminded of why I’m here.

Hollywood

Home

I see myself as a character actor, and I’ve always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I’ve never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

Acting

Character

People

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I’m a character actor.

Character

Men

Thinking

I’m a restless person. I get bored very quickly, particularly with myself. I’ve used acting as an escape and a way to channel my nervous energy. So I’ve always looked to find a role that’s as different from the one before it. I need change and variety or start to feel depressed.

Acting

Bored

Energy

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Accents

Achievement

Acting

Actors

Band

Believe

Bored

Boundaries

Care

Character

Children

Consuming

Creative

Dare

Decision

Different

Energy

Fashion

Fighting

Film

Firsts

Gone

Growing Up

Gun

Hard

Helping

Hollywood

Home

Judging

Kids

Made

Men

Mind

My Own

Nice

Notoriety

Passion

People

Play

Preparation

Producers

Real

Research

Responsibility

Rocks

Selfish

Serious

Speak

Stars

Stories

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Quotes by Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Nivola

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven’t been the star of a hit film.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I’m reminded of why I’m here.

I see myself as a character actor, and I’ve always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I’ve never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I’m a character actor.

I’m a restless person. I get bored very quickly, particularly with myself. I’ve used acting as an escape and a way to channel my nervous energy. So I’ve always looked to find a role that’s as different from the one before it. I need change and variety or start to feel depressed.

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