Quotes By Vincent D..Onofrio

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

Evil changes everybody!

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.