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. – Vincent D’Onofrio
Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody. – Vincent D’Onofrio
When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul. – Vincent D’Onofrio
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. – Vincent D’Onofrio
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing. – Vincent D’Onofrio
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. – Vincent D’Onofrio
I found my niche as a character actor, and I’ve never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to. – Vincent D’Onofrio
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. – Vincent D’Onofrio
The minute you start feeling like you’ve got it down, you know what you’re doing, you’re dead in the water. – Vincent D’Onofrio
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. – Vincent D’Onofrio
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what’s real and what’s interesting. – Vincent D’Onofrio
To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. – Vincent D’Onofrio
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. – Vincent D’Onofrio
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it’s really hard to have full control of your character. – Vincent D’Onofrio
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor. – Vincent D’Onofrio
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can’t control it. – Vincent D’Onofrio
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. – 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