Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

That's the most important thing - once you're on the pitch, you need to do your job properly.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

Regardless of what happened off the field, that doesn't change what I do on the field and my performance.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

On the pitch we tend to forget the things that happen off the field. I try to focus a lot on what I'm doing.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.