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It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

Vin Diesel

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
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
Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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Drive Myself Personality Style
I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.
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Change Future Harmony Love Myself
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
It’s like you have a child and you think, ‘Everything that I’ve done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.’ It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Children Comparison Father Point Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
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 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
Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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Game Oneself Universe Virtual
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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Character Craft Development Ideas Relation
I am definitely a person of color.
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Color Myself Person
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 with all kinds of people.
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Grow Up Kind Myself People
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
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
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Advice Book Empowerment Mom Practical Yourself
Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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Confidence Follow Leadership Love
The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
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Family Important Life People
I have dangerous bones in my body.
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Body Bone Dangerous Myself
I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.
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Attention Believe Myself Pay Project Special Yourself
You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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Cool Time
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
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 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
We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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Deal Fair Judgment

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