Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.

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.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

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.

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

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

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

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.

They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.

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.

My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story that you really dig, but there's no part that you're interested in. Sometimes you read a story and you say, "I could do that. I've never done that before. I could do play that part.

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.

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 do a more eclectic kind of route.

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

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

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

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

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

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