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Vin Diesel

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
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 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
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
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
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 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’ve directed independent film.
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Director Independent Movie Myself
I grew up with all kinds of people.
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Grow Up Kind Myself People
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
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
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
Deal-making goes on with any job.
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Creation Deal Myself One Liner
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
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’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Decline Movie Myself

I grew up with all kinds of people.

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