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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.
Alessandro Nivola
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Alessandro Nivola
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 28
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Boston
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Alessandro Antine Nivola
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The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
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You're making these movies for pennies, there's absolutely nothing to offer anybody, and they will still fight you! There's no more back-end for him? Well he'll have your back-end! He'll take your first born child! Producing is totally exhausting.
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I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
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When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
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As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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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.
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There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.
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I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
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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.
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The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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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.
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It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
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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.
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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.
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