Quotes By Vincent D..Onofrio

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.