When I did ‘The Cell’ – no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too – it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research. Vincent D'Onofrio Read Quote
I’m not gonna play a part that doesn’t instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I’m thinking halfway through, ‘I’m not sure I could get away with this,’ I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that’s the one I should do. Vincent D'Onofrio Read Quote
I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that’s the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they’re doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it’s going to work out okay. Vincent D'Onofrio Read Quote
Until I got ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience. Vincent D'Onofrio Read Quote
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. Vincent D'Onofrio Read Quote
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they’d seen my work in Full Metal Jacket. Vincent D'Onofrio Read Quote
