Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

Vincent D'Onofrio

Vincent D'Onofrio

American Actor

Born: Jun 30, 1959

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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience. Vincent D'Onofrio

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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted. Vincent D'Onofrio

Truth Truth Is Faint Hearted Search

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it. Vincent D'Onofrio

You Find Look Go Your Niche

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters. Vincent D'Onofrio

You Hide Difficult Characters More Known Behind

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle. Vincent D'Onofrio

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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience. Vincent D'Onofrio

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Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool. Vincent D'Onofrio

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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character. Vincent D'Onofrio

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor. Vincent D'Onofrio

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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career. Vincent D'Onofrio

Ruin Failed Going Movie Career

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially. Vincent D'Onofrio

Me Took Financially Cost Rather Lot Than Acting Route

The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else. Vincent D'Onofrio

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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do. Vincent D'Onofrio

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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films. Vincent D'Onofrio

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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it. Vincent D'Onofrio

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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet. Vincent D'Onofrio

Every Feel Like Still Done Want Episode Right

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers. Vincent D'Onofrio

Best Good Experience Year Our Some Episodes

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in. Vincent D'Onofrio

Something Mystic Did Just Pizza Then Fat

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling. Vincent D'Onofrio

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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had. Vincent D'Onofrio

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