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I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

Vin Diesel

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
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
You break her heart, I’ll break your neck.
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Break Heart Herself Myself
Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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Confidence Follow Leadership Love
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 haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Fans God Myself Thankful Weird
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
A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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Himself Person Position Strain
Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.
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Bad Career Diverse
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
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
Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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Game Oneself Universe Virtual
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
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
Deal-making goes on with any job.
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Creation Deal Myself One Liner
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
I am definitely a person of color.
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Color Myself Person
I’m a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.
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Element Fantasy Movie Myself Weapon
I’m going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.
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Best Channel Character Level Myself Spiritual
I have dangerous bones in my body.
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Body Bone Dangerous 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
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
Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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Car Choice Drive Important Yourself
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
Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Love Motivation Myself
I’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Age Audition Time
I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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Action Actor Care Myself

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