No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing. Vincent D'Onofrio More Quotes by Vincent D'Onofrio More Quotes From Vincent D'Onofrio Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character. Vincent D'Onofrio bradcharacterlooks 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 distancehurtbook This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all. Vincent D'Onofrio hauntingbecomingideas When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear. Vincent D'Onofrio picksusedfaces I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art. Vincent D'Onofrio businessartthinking It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. Vincent D'Onofrio simplemistakepeople 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 mysteryactorsacting Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in. Vincent D'Onofrio mysticpizzafats 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 shouldstonesworld 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-youfeelingswater 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-ondoorsbelieve 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 talkingchildrenpeople The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters. Vincent D'Onofrio difficultbehindscharacter 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-stylechoicescharacter I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially. Vincent D'Onofrio routescostacting 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 differentstoriesplay At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers. Vincent D'Onofrio good-experiencesepisodesyears Evil changes everybody! Vincent D'Onofrio evil The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced. Vincent D'Onofrio wholeworldfirsts
