Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

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.

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.