Alessandro Nivola Quotes
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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.
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.
With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.
It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.
Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.
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.
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 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 live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.
Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
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.
