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

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

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

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

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

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

— Alessandro Nivola

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— 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

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

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

— 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