Alessandro Nivola

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

— Alessandro Nivola

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

— Alessandro Nivola

I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to…

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're…

— Alessandro Nivola

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat…

— Alessandro Nivola

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

— Alessandro Nivola

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably…

— Alessandro Nivola

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

— Alessandro Nivola

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around…

— Alessandro Nivola

I'm a restless person. I get bored very quickly, particularly with myself. I've used acting as an escape and a way to…

— Alessandro Nivola

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when…

— Alessandro Nivola

With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind…

— Alessandro Nivola

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…

— Alessandro Nivola

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard…

— Alessandro Nivola

I don't separate Robert DeNiro's comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his…

— Alessandro Nivola

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells…

— Alessandro Nivola

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am…

— Alessandro Nivola

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm…

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

Anybody who is in # freelance work, especially # artistically , knows that it comes with all the # insecurity and the…

— Alessandro Nivola

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one…

— Alessandro Nivola

Just getting to the point where we are now with 'To Dust' movie - where we've raised the money, put the crew…

— Alessandro Nivola

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting…

— Alessandro Nivola

Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the…

— Alessandro Nivola

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and…

— Alessandro Nivola

There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you…

— Alessandro Nivola

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation…

— Alessandro Nivola

Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor.…

— Alessandro Nivola

Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got…

— Alessandro Nivola