Quotes By Vincent D..Onofrio

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

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.

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.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

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.

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

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

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

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Evil changes everybody!

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

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.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

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

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.