I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
VIN DIESELYou 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.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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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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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’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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If you believe in the project, you have to support it.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
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That’s what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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If I’m on set and I’m in character, I’m not thinking like a producer. If I’m on set and I’m not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I’m just coming on set for the moments that I’m not shooting, then I’m able to be the producer.
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Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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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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When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
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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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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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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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