45 Quotes by Bobby Cannavale

I’m getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

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

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

I'm an idealist.

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

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.

Most people think good enough is good enough.