Alessandro Nivola Quotes

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

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.