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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.

Vin Diesel

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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Character Enjoyment Feeling Learning Myself Play Therapy
You break her heart, I’ll break your neck.
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Break Heart Herself Myself
I’m not really afraid of the dark, except if I’m walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
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Afraid Darkness Exception Lips Myself Possible Walk Wall
I’ve directed independent film.
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Director Independent Movie Myself
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 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
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
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
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
I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Decline Movie Myself
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.
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Actor Choice Job Myself Option Preference School
When I’m writing, I’m locking myself in a room. I’m the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I’m like “Vin, you’re retarded, that makes no sense.”
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Criticism Myself Retard Room Worst Writing
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
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
I have dangerous bones in my body.
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Body Bone Dangerous Myself
Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.
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Concern Female Hollywood Preference Shape
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
I love women more than anything.
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Love Myself Woman
I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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Consistent Discipline Enough Myself Writing

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.

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