98 Quotes by Vincent D'Onofrio

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101.

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.

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.

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.

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I’ve ever produced.

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

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.

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don’t deserve any recognition.

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