Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

I'm a character actor at heart.

I think good acting is always character acting.

The idea of an actor is that you should be able to play anything.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

Any good actor is a character actor.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I think younger fans can't quite grasp that's what you do as an actor. They're like, 'It doesn't make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!' It's really cute, actually.

I think I have proven that I can play any type of character.

I am not that big a method actor.

I would loved to be called a character actor.

When I believe in an actor, I believe there is something in that actor.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I do think I'm a character actor.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

I really love being a character actor.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.