Bobby Cannavale

“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'm an idealist.”

“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.”

“I can't do a Bloody Mary. But I like the idea of them. It's got fresh vegetables in it.”

“Nobody's ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.”

“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.”

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

“Most people think good enough is good enough.”

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

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

“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'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 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 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.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“The biggest part of my life is my son.”

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