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.”
VIN DIESELIt wasn’t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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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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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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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
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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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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.
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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 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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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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They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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 have dangerous bones in my body.
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It’s really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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