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.
VIN DIESELIt 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.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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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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The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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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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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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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’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.
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I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.
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Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.
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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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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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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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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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It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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