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Vin Diesel

I’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Age Audition Time
I grew up with all kinds of people.
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Grow Up Kind Myself People
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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Celebration Life Masculine Myself Possible Time
I 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.
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Freedom Live Myself Store Time
Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Love Motivation Myself
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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Character Make Up Moments Myself Production 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
If you believe in the project, you have to support it.
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Believe Project Support Yourself
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
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
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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Day Extreme Fashion Life Myself Need Thinking
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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Director Experience Hollywood Oneself Way
You break her heart, I’ll break your neck.
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Break Heart Herself Myself
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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Fight Mom Myself Protection Tough
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 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
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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Age People Place Yourself
Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.
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Concern Female Hollywood Preference Shape
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
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
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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Art Collaboration Pieces Togetherness Yourself
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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Approach Enjoyment Flattery Kind Myself People Talent Thinking Worth
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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Age Born Choice Man Option
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
It’s really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Animal Herself Kill Training
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
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Call Details Himself Movie Revenge Thinking Traditional
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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Artist Community Growth Myself

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