Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.
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But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
