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It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
Alessandro Nivola
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Alessandro Nivola
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 28
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Boston
Massachusetts
Alessandro Antine Nivola
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Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.
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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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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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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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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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As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
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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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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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When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
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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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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 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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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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