Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Character, Actor

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Distance, Hurt

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

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  Tags in Interesting

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Working

• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Acting

• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they’d seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

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  Topics in Country, Work

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

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  Tags in Need, Good

• It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in People

• 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.

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  Tags in Myself

• It doesn’t need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

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  Tags in Need

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

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  Tags in Law and Order

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

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  Tags in Theater

• 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.

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  Topics in Achievement, Work

  Tags in Struggle, Audience

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors

• 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.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Personality

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

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  Tags in Look

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Control

• I’ve never tried to be something I’m not.

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  Tags in Never

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

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  Tags in Feel, Like

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

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  Tags in Actor, Establish

Vincent D'Onofrio (43)

Birth:	30th June, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Singer, Writer

About

Vincent Philip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer.Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname "The Human Chameleon".He is known for his roles as Private Leonard Lawrence in the war film Full Metal Jacket, "Edgar" in Men in Black and Detective Robert Goren in the crime TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

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