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.
VIN DIESELI’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.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.
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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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I am definitely a person of color.
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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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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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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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Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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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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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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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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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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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.
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We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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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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