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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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Alessandro Nivola
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 28
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Boston
Massachusetts
Alessandro Antine 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.
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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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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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It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
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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.
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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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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 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.
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Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.
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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 .
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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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Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
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