Quotations and phrases - Vincent Donofrio

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

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 Donofrio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
-- Vincent Donofrio

I've never tried to be something I'm not.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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

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

It was something I was reluctant to do because there have been performances about serial killers in the past that have done pretty well.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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 Donofrio

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

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

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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

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

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.
-- Vincent Donofrio

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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.
-- Vincent Donofrio

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
-- Vincent Donofrio

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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.
-- Vincent Donofrio

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
-- Vincent Donofrio

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
-- Vincent Donofrio

They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
-- Vincent Donofrio

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
-- Vincent Donofrio

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
-- Vincent Donofrio

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
-- Vincent Donofrio

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