American - Actor | May 3, 1970 -
I'm an idealist.
Bobby Cannavale
Idealist
I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?
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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.
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I don't think I'm on the studio president's list: 'The movie's going to star Cannavale.' That's not happening.
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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.
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Most people think good enough is good enough.
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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.
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I don't come from an intellectual family.
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I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.
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I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.
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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.
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A character should always have a secret. I feel like we all do.
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