Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
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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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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.
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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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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'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 think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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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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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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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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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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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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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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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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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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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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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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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.