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Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
Vincent D'Onofrio
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 30
,
1959
Actor
Character
Good
Me
People
You
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
Experience
Same Thing
Nothing
Other
Only
Mystery
Know
Same
The Only Thing
Us
Act
Acting
Separates
Actor
Thing
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Me
Own
Skin
Too
Definition
Able
Lay
Masculinity
True
Comfortably
Femininity
Being
Your
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
Work
Day
Struggle
Achieve
Our
Lies
Percent
Never
Never Stop
Performance
Until
Audience
Get
Trying
Die
Gets
Stop
Where
Us
Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
Vincent D'Onofrio
People
Three
Until
Metal
Audience
Got
Doing
Jacket
Full
Plays
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
Age
Women
Law
Men
Men And Women
Long
Changed
Daredevil
Like
Audience
Doing
Order
Fan
Fan Base
Then
Cool
Whole
Base
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
Character
I Am
Heroes
Every
Relate
Humility
Characters
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Also
Well
Am
Method
Method Actor
Whether
Then
Should
Aspect
Hard
Villains
Film
Actor
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Myself
Good
One Thing
Did
Establish
The One Thing
Good Actor
Actor
Thing
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
Character
Somewhere
Looking
Else
Books
Characters
Has-Been
Willing
About
Something
Marvel
Somewhere Else
Take
Around
Comic
Comic Books
Real
Still
Been
Years
Years And Years
Artists
Depending
Us
Create
Acting
Even
Thing
Chances
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
Me
Fear
Think
Thinking
Everything
I Think
I Can
Kind
Some
Could
Through
Part
Instill
Read
Halfway
Sure
Doing
Get
Gonna
Should
Suddenly
Keep
Away
Play
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
Personality
I Am
Become
Films
Worry
Press
Visible
About
More
Only
Sheer
Because
Quantity
Am
Going
The Only Thing
Thing
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
People
Will
Control
Extremely
Hook
Inside
Something
Neurosis
Take
He
Head
Like
Caught
End
Goes
Them
Then
Who
Round
Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Law
Somebody
Our
Law And Order
About
Because
Intent
Different
Order
Psychology
Show
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
Character
You
Improvise
Everything
Gives
He
Does
Leaves
Camera
Discuss
Rolling
While
Then
Create
Full
Lets
Rein
Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Best
Character
Niro
Had
He
Like
De Niro
Actor
Ever