Quotes from Alessandro Nivola


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


You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.


There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.


Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.


When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.


Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.


The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.


It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.


I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.


I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.


I tell you, the Pokemon industry has bled me dry.


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.


People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.


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


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


Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.


There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.


I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.


I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.


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.