Vincent D'Onofrio

(7 votes)   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.

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(6 votes)   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.

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

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

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

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(4 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   I've never tried to be something I'm not.

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

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

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

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(42 votes)   Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]

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

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

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(5 votes)   So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

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