Alessandro Nivola Quotes

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

Alessandro Nivola

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• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Political
  • Goal

• Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Dress

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Moment
  • Producer
  • Some

• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Women
  • Reality

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Honor

• I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'

  

  Camila Alves
  • God
  • Love
  • Style

• If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Myself
  • Anything
  • Marxist

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• We all deal with being unfairly judged.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Being
  • Deal
  • Judged

• On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Long
  • Family

• When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sometimes
  • Try
  • Down

• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Life
  • Work

• If the script is good, the cast and director good, I'll go anywhere.

  

  Ken Watanabe
  • Good

• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Universe

• Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Men
  • Comedy
  • Boy

• Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Friend
  • Discover
  • Ecstasy

• The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

  

  Alessandro Nivola