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.
VIN DIESELYou make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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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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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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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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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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you’re in this heavy headspace all the time.
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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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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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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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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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When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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