Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Vincent D'Onofrio

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

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

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

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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 D'Onofrio

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

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

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

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

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

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
Vincent D'Onofrio