Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
VIN DIESELIf 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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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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If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.
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Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.
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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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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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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.
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When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
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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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They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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That’s what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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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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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I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.
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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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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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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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I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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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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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can’t look to one person – you couldn’t look to me, you couldn’t say, ‘Because Vin’s in it, it’s this or that.’ It’s really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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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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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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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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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