Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I like to do different things and, as my actrees career evolves, I will choose roles to do things that I haven't done before. There are a lot of different sides of me, and I'm in a unique position now, for the first time in my career, to decide what direction I want to go in.

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

I'm not yet fortunate enough to take only the scripts that capture my fancy, but each one has to be a new experience, to put me in a light that audiences haven't necessarily seen me before.

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.

As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.

I've hardly ever played urban characters.

I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.

As a performer, I want to push my boundaries and try different roles.

After my second and third movies, which did not click, I realised I should not do something that's too heavy.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

As an actor, I want to expand myself. If there's something I read that I feel like I'm not going to learn from, I don't want to do it.

It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.