Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
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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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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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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 think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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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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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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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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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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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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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.