Vin Diesel Quotes & Sayings

#1. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

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#2. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

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#3. I am definitely a person of color.

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#4. I love women more than anything.

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#5. The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

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#6. It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

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#7. I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

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#8. Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

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#9. Women are sacred.

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#10. The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

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#11. I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

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#12. The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

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#13. You get a timeless cool card in New York.

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#14. A person in my position has to restrain himself.

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#15. If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

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#16. If you believe in the project, you have to support it.

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#17. Show me how you drive and I'll show you who you are.

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#18. I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

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#19. When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."

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#20. I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.

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#21. Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.

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#22. I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

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#23. I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

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#24. It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

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#25. I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

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#26. The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

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#27. I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

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#28. When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.

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#29. When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.

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#30. The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'

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#31. The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

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#32. It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

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#33. I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

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#34. When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

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#35. IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

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#36. I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker ... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

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#37. It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

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#38. For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

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#39. I'm a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

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#40. You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

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#41. We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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#42. When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It's a luxury we have today.

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#43. My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

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#44. None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.

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#45. Deal-making goes on with any job.

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#46. I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

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#47. When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

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#48. Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.

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#49. The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.

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#50. I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

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#51. I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

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#52. Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."

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#53. It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

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#54. The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

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#55. I grew up with all kinds of people.

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#56. You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

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#57. With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

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#58. I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.

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#59. Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

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#60. We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.

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#61. I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York ...

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#62. When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

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#63. It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

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#64. I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.

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#65. My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

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#66. I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

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#67. When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

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#68. My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

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#69. Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

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#70. You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

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#71. Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

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#72. I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.

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#73. I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

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#74. I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

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#75. I have dangerous bones in my body.

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#76. Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

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#77. If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

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#78. Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.

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#79. It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

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#80. Find your confidence, lead with love ... the rest will follow.

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#81. Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

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#82. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.

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#83. I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

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#84. I always have issues with trust.

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#85. I always have issues. I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don't think it's anything specific. I don't think it's anything tangible.

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#86. I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early ... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

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#87. The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

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#88. The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

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#89. My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

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#90. You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

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#91. I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

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#92. If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

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#93. I look formidable.

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#94. If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

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