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Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

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"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."

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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself."

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"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."

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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."

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"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."

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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

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"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
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"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."
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"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
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"It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt."
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"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."
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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
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"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."
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"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."
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"The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced."
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"Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character."
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