Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

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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• Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

  

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• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

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• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

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• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

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• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

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• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

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• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

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• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

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• I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

  

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• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

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• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

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• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

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• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
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• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
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• I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

  

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  

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• A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

  

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• You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

  

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• I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

  

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• 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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Directors
  • Europe