Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

For me, personally, I'm a 5'5" leading man. I'm no Brad Pitt or anything.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

I hadn't grown up thinking that I have to be this big actress in Bollywood.

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.

I really love being a character actor.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.