Vin Diesel Quotes

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

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• 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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• 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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• I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

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• The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I’d be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

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• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

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• 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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• We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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• 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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• 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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• I’m not really afraid of the dark, except if I’m walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

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• What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched ‘On the Waterfront’, just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

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• 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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• I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don’t approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

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• 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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Vin Diesel (26)

Birth:	18th July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

About

Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He began his fame in the late 1990s and became best known in the 2000s and 2010s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including Saving Private Ryan, Pitch Black, The Fast and the Furious, xXx , The Chronicles of Riddick, Fast & Furious and Fast Five. He is also the founder of the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records.

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