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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More Vin Diesel Quotes
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I love women more than anything.
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I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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I can’t go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I’m anything, I’m inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.
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I’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
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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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Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: “If I’m not a star by the time I’m 18, I’ll get out of the business.”
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.
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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 am definitely a person of color.
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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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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.
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The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
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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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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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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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If I’m on set and I’m in character, I’m not thinking like a producer. If I’m on set and I’m not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I’m just coming on set for the moments that I’m not shooting, then I’m able to be the producer.
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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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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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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.
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