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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.

Vin Diesel

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
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 do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.
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Art Friendship Martial Myself Practice World
They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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Help Open Road Thinking 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
We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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Deal Fair Judgment
Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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Drive Myself Personality Style
I’m a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.
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Appreciation Body Goodness Myself
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
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
It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Chase Dreams Insecurity Stand Way Yourself
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
You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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Cool Time
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
When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.
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Believe Miracle People Yourself
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
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Criticism Home Movie Myself People Run
If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.
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Amazing Myself Role
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
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
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
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
I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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Fiction Follow Imagination Love Myself Mythology Science Vision
Deal-making goes on with any job.
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Creation Deal Myself One Liner
I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Fans God Myself Thankful Weird
It wasn’t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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College Myself Speed Thrill Understand
I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.
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Myself Relate Spiritual Thinking
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 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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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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