Bobby Cannavale

“I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.”

“I don't come from an intellectual family.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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'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.”

“I was, like, 28 or 29 when I finally was on camera for the first time.”

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

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

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

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