98 Quotes by Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

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

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.

It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn’t fat in.

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

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.

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.