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.
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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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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I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.
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I’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.
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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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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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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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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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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.
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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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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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They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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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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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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It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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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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Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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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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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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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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