Top 25 Bobby Cannavale Quotes

A character should always have a secret. I feel like we all do.

I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What’s better than that?

The biggest part of my life is my son.

When I saw John Turturro in ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,’ I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.

I don’t go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Most people think good enough is good enough.

I love being a dad. I’d do it full-time if I didn’t have to make a living.

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.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn’t like that.

Growing up, I wasn’t an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

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.

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.

I didn’t go to college.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t come from an intellectual family.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.

I don’t think I’m on the studio president‘s list: ‘The movie‘s going to star Cannavale.’ That’s not happening.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

Nobody‘s ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.

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.

I love taking pictures of food.