Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

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• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

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  Tags in Career, Movie

• The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what’s real and what’s interesting.

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  Tags in Interesting, Actor

• 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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  Tags in Feeling, Like

• And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

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• When you’re a child you’re able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you’re around. I wasn’t conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

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  Tags in People, Actor

• The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

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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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  Tags in Character, Actor

• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

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  Tags in True, Comfortable

• Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it’s really hard to have full control of your character.

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  Tags in Character

• 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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  Tags in Discuss, Character

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn’t fat in.

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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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  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Character

• When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

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  Tags in Younger

• What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don’t deserve any recognition.

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  Tags in Recognition

• Evil changes everybody!

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• At our best, it’s a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

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  Topics in Experience

• They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I’d never worked in televsion before.

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  Tags in Interested

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Search

• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn’t settle well with me at all.

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  Tags in Celebrity, Idea

Vincent D'Onofrio (43)

Birth:	30th June, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Singer, Writer

About

Vincent Philip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer.Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname "The Human Chameleon".He is known for his roles as Private Leonard Lawrence in the war film Full Metal Jacket, "Edgar" in Men in Black and Detective Robert Goren in the crime TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

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