We all deal with being unfairly judged.
VIN DIESELI could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.
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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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Any film that you see is never just the director. If it’s a film that you love, it’s not so easy to say, “Oh it’s directed by this person – that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful.”
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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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IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
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Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We’ve all experienced that, in one way or another.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it’s a different experience. For some reason, it’s something that you’re all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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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 think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.
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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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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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Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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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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They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There’s something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.
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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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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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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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I’m a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.
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I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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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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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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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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