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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.

Vin Diesel

I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Decline Movie Myself
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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Children Exception Movie Myself Screen See Thinking
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
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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Actor Collaboration Effort Movie Myself Scene Shine Steal Strong
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
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
When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
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Children Fear Myself Tree
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
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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Growth Internal Myself Process Son
Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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Game Oneself Universe Virtual
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
You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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Cool Time
I’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Age Audition Time
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
When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.
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Believe Miracle People Yourself
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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Act Business Myself Start Time

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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