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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.

Vin Diesel

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
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
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Age Born Choice Man Option
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 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
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
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
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
I can’t go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I’m anything, I’m inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.
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Existence Global Harmony Hope Identity Myself White
I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Fans God Myself Thankful Weird
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
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’ve come a long way, from where we’ve been. I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.
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Myself See Way Yourself
I’ve directed independent film.
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Director Independent Movie Myself
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 am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don’t approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
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Approach Enjoyment Flattery Kind Myself People Talent Thinking Worth
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’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.
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Adopt Issues Myself Trust
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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Feeling Hairs Head Lost Myself Therapy
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
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 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
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’m a perfectionist. I’m very critical, especially artistically.
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Artistic Criticism Myself Perfection
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’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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Consistent Discipline Enough Myself Writing
When you go to the movies with your whole family, it’s a different experience. For some reason, it’s something that you’re all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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Family Movie Reason Special Togetherness Yourself
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 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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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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