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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Vincent D'Onofrio

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

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

Vincent D'Onofrio

Experience

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Actor

Evil changes everybody!

Vincent D'Onofrio

Evil

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

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Needs

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

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

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

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Right

Want

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

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.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Ireland

It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Needs