Quotes by Bobby Cannavale - Page 1

The biggest part of my life is my son.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Son
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I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Workers
Factory
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I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Clown
Class Clown
Nuns
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Nobody's ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Choreograph
Hire
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The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Meals
Good I Am More
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I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Full-Time
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I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Bigs
Folks
Silly
Small Things
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I can't do a Bloody Mary. But I like the idea of them. It's got fresh vegetables in it.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Bloody
Mary
Vegetables
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I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Able
Being There
Enjoy
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I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Falling In Love
Garbage
Guy
Looks
Love Good Romantic
Romantic Lead
Uninteresting
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Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Athlete
Growing Up
Theater
Belonged
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When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Blue
Sea
Danny
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I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
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Classroom
Clown
Kind
School
Setting
Suspended
Good Never School
Good School Never
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Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Horse
Riding
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If you're an actor from New York, and you're Italian-American, you grow up hoping Marty Scorsese knows your name at some point before you die.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Italian American
Marty
Scorsese
Hoping
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I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Character
Interesting
Thinking
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I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
What If
Me Day Sometimes
Limp
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The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Big Business
Work Business People
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I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
New York
Home
Careers
Creative Process
Time Work Home
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I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Awards
Mean
Strange
Thinking
Award
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I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th Street. Three people showed up. One of them was an agent. It was my first agent.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Christmas Eve
Agent
Eve
Opened
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I like that message for my own children that you don't have to go with the flow, go with the crowd. That you can be your own person. You can be an individual, and that's valid, and that's important.
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Flow
Crowd
Valid
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I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Amazed
Guy
People
Talking
Wanna
Different Parts
Mention
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I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Kids
Gypsy
Perspective
Roles
Great World Perspective
Ended
Get Married
Great World Young
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I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Accurate
Dumb
Perception
Sensitive
Right Away
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The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.
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Midnight
Special
Weekend
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I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Character
Flawed
Growing Up
Keys
Movies Character Always
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My dad worked at a mechanical factory for 35 years. I grew up in Union City, NJ. My mother is a social worker. My sister runs a 7-Eleven, and my brother is a detox counselor. They had no predilection for the arts. But from a very young age, I really, really loved theater.
Bobby Cannavale / Actor
Sister
Dad
Brother
Counselor
Grew
Theater
Young Age
Arts
Loved
City
Detox
Factory
Mechanical
Union
Runs
Worked
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I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the most incredible theater, and in this church, it was beyond. It was this huge monastery. It was landmarked. It's a beautiful building, and I kind of had the run of it.
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Altar
Attached
Monastery
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I've met people I wished I hadn't met. But Al Pacino was not one of them. For a guy who's old enough to be my father I feel like we're kindred spirits. We have a lot in common. Our families and our history with our families is very similar. Our relationships with our families is very similar. We had a lot more in common than I thought.
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Father
Guy
People
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