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.”
VIN DIESELI 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.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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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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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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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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IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
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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 a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.
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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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Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.
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Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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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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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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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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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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I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.
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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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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
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I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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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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I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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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 grew up the son of an acting teacher but I’ve never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.
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Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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I’m a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.
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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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When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.
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