Quotes By Vincent D..Onofrio
They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
Vincent D'Onofrio
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
Vincent D'Onofrio
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
Vincent D'Onofrio
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
Vincent D'Onofrio
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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
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
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
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
Vincent D'Onofrio
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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
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.
Vincent D'Onofrio
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio
At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
Vincent D'Onofrio
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
Vincent D'Onofrio
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
Vincent D'Onofrio