"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 subtext is almost anti-industrial: in a culture that sells outcomes, he’s arguing for process as the product. That’s a quietly radical stance in an entertainment economy built on branding, polish, and the fantasy of mastery. D’Onofrio frames performance as labor you can feel. The audience “gets the struggle” not as pity, but as the only credible evidence that something real is happening. If the work looks too seamless, it can start to read as counterfeit, like a trick executed without stakes.
Context matters: an actor known for intense physical and psychological transformation is translating his own method into a broader philosophy. He’s also smuggling in a humane permission slip. Failure isn’t a detour from excellence; it’s the texture of it. The audience doesn’t connect to a finished statue. They connect to the chisel marks, the breath, the risk of not quite pulling it off - and the stubborn decision to try anyway, again, until the lights go out.
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D'Onofrio, Vincent. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-of-us-are-trying-to-achieve-100-percent-in-102867/
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D'Onofrio, Vincent. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-of-us-are-trying-to-achieve-100-percent-in-102867/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-of-us-are-trying-to-achieve-100-percent-in-102867/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
