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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Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.
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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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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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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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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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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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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good 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 think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
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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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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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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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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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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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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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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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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.