Because Quote by Vincent D'Onofrio

“They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.”

Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

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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 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've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.

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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

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

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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…

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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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