Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
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Evil changes everybody!
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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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.
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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.
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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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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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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.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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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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I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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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.
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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.