Alessandro Nivola Quotes

I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

I get restless very easily; I don't like to do the same thing twice.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I want to do different things all the time.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.

I'm that type of person that if I feel like I'm doing the same thing in life, then I'm stuck. Always gotta be moving and doing something different.

My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

I never want to keep doing the same thing more than once, honestly.

I don't want to get stuck practicing basketball all day, so that's why I'm always moving: because I don't like to be stuck in one mind-frame.