Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

Vincent D'Onofrio

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 30, 1959

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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Johnny Carson

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England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

Stephen Daldry

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I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad.

Slim Whitman

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I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

Shoshannah Stern

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A sure-fire way to know you're crazy is if more than one person has told you you'd be great on a reality show - and you agree with them.

Tracy McMillan

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I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

Lisa McMann

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People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan.

Des Browne

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Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

Deborah K. Ross

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We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

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My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.

Christy Turlington

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I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

Brad Paisley

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