Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

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• To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
• I've never tried to be something I'm not.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
• When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
• Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to…
• The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.
• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get…
• 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…
• Evil changes everybody!
• The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
• Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
• The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
• The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
• 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…

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