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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.

Vin Diesel

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.
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Act Confidence Job Lady Myself
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
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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Movie Number Rate See
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
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
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
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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Character Focus Myself Pocket Possible Process Stay
I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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Feeling Guilty Myself
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
Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.
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Concern Female Hollywood Preference Shape
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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Development Dreams Myself Night Project Work
I’m a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.
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Appreciation Body Goodness Myself
I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Love Myself Possible Project Thinking
If you believe in the project, you have to support it.
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Believe Project Support Yourself
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
IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
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Success Win Yourself
Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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Drive Myself Personality Style
We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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Deal Fair Judgment
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
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
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
Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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Confidence Follow Leadership Love
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
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
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
I am definitely a person of color.
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Color Myself Person
Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Love Motivation Myself

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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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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