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" I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know? "
Bobby Cannavale
Small Things
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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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" I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there. "
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" 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 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. "
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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 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. "
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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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People
You
" 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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" I don't come from an intellectual family. "
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Family
Come
" I grew up with a bunch of factory workers. "
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Workers
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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. "
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Award
You
Weird
" I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage. "
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Look
Good
Fall
" I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that. "
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Like
Clown
" 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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Business
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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. "
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Great
World
Thought
" I'm an idealist. "
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Idealist
" Most people think good enough is good enough. "
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Most
Think
People
" 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. "
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Wake Up
Like
Day
" 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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President
Going
Star
" 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. "
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Home
Time
" I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living. "
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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. "
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