Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

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

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • She
  • Small
  • Dad

• No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Day

• Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Good
  • Day

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Logical

• 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Forever
  • Now

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Me
  • Boundaries

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Child
  • Romantic
  • Temptation

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Creation
  • Step
  • Destroy

• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Over

• Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Important

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Guilty

• You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'

  

  Emily Meade
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• 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
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Interesting