Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
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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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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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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'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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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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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 think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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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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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 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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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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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 want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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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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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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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.