Vincent D’Onofrio Net Worth

Vincent D’Onofrio's Quotes

• [on acting] Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
• [on his career choices] It's something that I've been saying for years when people ask me how I pick the things that I do. I pick the things that scare me the most. You have to like the story first. 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.
• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character. I know that during actual performance scenes, what I need to trigger myself off, and I know how to trigger it off so that it will trigger you off, which will also influence how you feel when I'm expressionless.
• I'm not gonna make excuses for other actors. I'm just talking about myself. The good actors that I've met - I've met some of the best actors that we'll ever see - and I know for sure the one thing that we all have in common when we all look in each other's eyes, is that we're all struggling to achieve 100%. That's all I see when I see another artist. All of us are trying to achieve 100% 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%, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

Interesting Facts about Vincent D’Onofrio

1. Played the character of "Bill Newman" in both JFK (1991) and Malcolm X (1992).
2. Last name is pronounced Don-off-ree-o.
3. He bleached his hair blond for his part in Adventures in Babysitting (1987).
4. Gained a world record 70 pounds for his role in Full Metal Jacket (1987).
5. Vincent's sister, actress Elizabeth D'Onofrio, teaches acting in Asheville, North Carolina.
6. Gained 45 pounds for his role in The Salton Sea (2002).
7. One of the founders of the River Run Film Festival (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), along with his sister, Elizabeth D'Onofrio, and their father, Gene D'Onofrio.
8. Daughter: Leila George, born March 20, 1992. Her mother is actress Greta Scacchi.
9. Sons: Elias Gene D'Onofrio, born in December 1999. Luka D'Onofrio, born on February 14, 2008. Their mother is Carin van der Donk.
10. Unhappy with his impression of Orson Welles, director Tim Burton had D'Onofrio's voice dubbed, in the film Ed Wood (1994). The near perfect Orson Welles impression was supplied by voice-over artist Maurice LaMarche.
11. Renée Zellweger thanked him in her Oscar acceptance speech when she won 'Best Actress in a Supporting Role' for Cold Mountain (2003).
12. Has played Orson Welles in two different, unrelated productions: Ed Wood (1994) and Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (2005).
13. "I want you to be big -- Lon Chaney big," Stanley Kubrick informed D'Onofrio during the filming of Full Metal Jacket (1987).
14. Uncle of Hawk D'Onofrio. Hawk is the son of Vincent's older sister, Elizabeth D'Onofrio.
15. Coincidentally, he played Moriarty in the TV movie Sherlock (2002) while he starred as Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), whose character is based on Sherlock Holmes.
16. Was considered for the role of Knuckles in Suburban Commando (1991).
17. Lives in New York to be with his family and for the filming of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). [2002]
18. Was the first choice for the role of Martin Brundle in The Fly II (1989) and was nearly cast for the part but his screen tests didn't go well. He was born the same year that Return of the Fly (1959) was released and he has the same first name as Vincent Price who appeared in The Fly (1958).
19. He is one of a few actors to have worked with both Stanley Kubrick and Robert Altman - along with Matthew Modine, Sidney Pollack, and Malcolm McDowell.
20. Father-in-law of Sean Penn.