Vincent D'onofrio Quotes

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.

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

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.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

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

Evil changes everybody!

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

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

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.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

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.

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.

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

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

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

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

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

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 hurt.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.