Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

I like pushing myself as an actor.

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

Working with Nawazudin Siddiqui was like an acting workshop. It helped me become a more confident person.

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.

I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

I think I have grown as a better actor, I have learnt more about people and professionalism.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.