Words matter. These are the best Vincent D’Onofrio Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Like De Niro. He’s one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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.
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don’t deserve any recognition.
When you’re acting, it should be the most important thing that’s going on. But when you’re not, leave it alone.
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what’s real and what’s interesting.
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
Evil changes everybody!
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.
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they’d seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
It doesn’t need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
I did a film called ‘Fire with Fire.’
When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
Until I got ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I’d never worked in televsion before.
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.
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.
Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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.
It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That’s all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It’s that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that’s where our performance lies, that’s what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
I read Spider-Man, and that’s how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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.
