Vincent D'Onofrio Professions : Actor Born : June 30, 1959 Browse All Authors Top 48 quotes by Vincent D'Onofrio Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character. Vincent D'Onofrio brad character looks 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. Vincent D'Onofrio distance hurt book This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all. Vincent D'Onofrio haunting becoming ideas When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear. Vincent D'Onofrio picks used faces I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art. Vincent D'Onofrio business art thinking It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. Vincent D'Onofrio simple mistake people 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 mystery actors acting Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in. Vincent D'Onofrio mystic pizza fats 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. Vincent D'Onofrio should stones world 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 doing-you feelings water I've never tried to be something I'm not. Vincent D'Onofrio 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. Vincent D'Onofrio moving-on doors believe 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 talking children people The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters. Vincent D'Onofrio difficult behinds character 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. Vincent D'Onofrio eclectic-style choices character I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially. Vincent D'Onofrio routes cost acting 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. Vincent D'Onofrio different stories play At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers. Vincent D'Onofrio good-experiences episodes years Evil changes everybody! Vincent D'Onofrio evil The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced. Vincent D'Onofrio whole world firsts Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
