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.
VIN DIESELYou make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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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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Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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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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I love women more than anything.
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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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They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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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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It’s really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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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 a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.
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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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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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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she’s magical.
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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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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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If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.
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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 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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I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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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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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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In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It’s something that’s not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you’re always pushing people and you’re pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.
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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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I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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