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Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

Vin Diesel

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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Grow Up Kind Myself People
A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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Himself Person Position Strain
You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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Cool Time
If you believe in the project, you have to support it.
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Believe Project Support Yourself
You break her heart, I’ll break your neck.
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Break Heart Herself Myself
I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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Action Actor Care Myself
IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
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Success Win Yourself
I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.
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Change Future Harmony Love Myself
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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Age People Place Yourself
I am definitely a person of color.
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Color Myself Person
I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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Feeling Guilty Myself
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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Fight Mom Myself Protection Tough
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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Action Appreciation Movie Performance Role Understand Yourself
I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don’t approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
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Approach Enjoyment Flattery Kind Myself People Talent Thinking Worth
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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Actor Choice Job Myself Option Preference School
I’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Age Audition Time
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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Fiction Follow Imagination Love Myself Mythology Science Vision
When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
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Children Fear Myself Tree
It wasn’t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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College Myself Speed Thrill Understand
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
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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Age Born Choice Man Option
The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
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Family Important Life People
I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I’ve never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.
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Growth Internal Myself Process Son
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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Feeling Hairs Head Lost Myself Therapy
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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Change Children Family Myself Old
Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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Car Choice Drive Important Yourself

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