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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.

Vin Diesel

Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.
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Character Easy Myself Serious
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you’re in this heavy headspace all the time.
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Deep heavy Movie Myself Role Time
I have dangerous bones in my body.
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Body Bone Dangerous Myself
I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Decline Movie Myself
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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Beyond Experience Myself Relationship Thinking
That’s what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Commitment Love Movie Myself Project Thinking
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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Hollywood Perfection Thinking Welcome Yourself
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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Character Essential Play Previous Talk Thinking Yourself
I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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Consistent Discipline Enough Myself Writing
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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Actor Best Choice Expectation Myself
Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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Confidence Follow Leadership Love
Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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Car Choice Drive Important Yourself
A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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Himself Person Position Strain
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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Advice Book Empowerment Mom Practical Yourself
I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.
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Attention Believe Myself Pay Project Special Yourself
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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Darkness Live Reality Smoke Start Yourself
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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Character Enjoyment Feeling Learning Myself Play Therapy
I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.
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Myself Relate Spiritual Thinking
I love women more than anything.
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Love Myself Woman
Any film that you see is never just the director. If it’s a film that you love, it’s not so easy to say, “Oh it’s directed by this person – that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful.”
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Director Easy Movie Person Wonder Yourself
IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
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Success Win Yourself
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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Change Children Family Myself Old
My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Faith Feeling Movie Sequel Writing Yourself
Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We’re all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.
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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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Education Help Learning Marketing Myself Skills Time
They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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Help Open Road Thinking Yourself
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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Existence Global Harmony Hope Identity Myself White

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