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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 D'Onofrio

Work, Like, Moved, Jacket

Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Doing, Audience, Plays, Jacket

I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Humility, Villains, Method Actor

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 D'Onofrio

Will, Caught, Like, Neurosis

When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Play, Shame, Constant, Who Am I

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Truth, Search, Truth Is, Faint

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 D'Onofrio

Good, Some, Direct, Scripts

I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

How, Read, Wilson, Spider-Man

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Best, Year, Some, Episodes

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.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Die, Audience, Achieve, Struggle

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Actor, Line, Most, Possibly

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Lot, Took, Route, Financially

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Character, Actor, Been, Establish

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

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Myself, Actor, One Thing, Establish

Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Law, Doing, Audience, Fan Base

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Career, Movie, Going, Ruin

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 D'Onofrio

Improvise, Lets, Then, Discuss

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, Like, Read, Scary Movies

I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Happy, Job, Never, Wood

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Law, Psychology, Show, Law And Order

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Skin, Own, Lay, Femininity

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 D'Onofrio

Star, Movie, Like, Teen Idol

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

World, Ever, Wide, Produced

I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

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Doing, Confident, Allow, Be Brave

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Voice, Some, Always, Juggle

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

Nothing, Other, Same Thing, Separates

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 D'Onofrio

Worry, Rest, My Life, Box Office

Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Incredible, Artists, Frank, Miller

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

- Vincent D'Onofrio

Pizza, Fat, Then, Mystic

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 D'Onofrio

Young, More, Made, Mystic

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