I grew up with all kinds of people.
VIN DIESELMost of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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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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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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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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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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If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.
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I love women more than anything.
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With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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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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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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Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.
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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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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 envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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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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I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.
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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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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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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you’re in this heavy headspace all the time.
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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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Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.
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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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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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