Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
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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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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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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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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with 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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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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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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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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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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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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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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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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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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It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.
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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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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.