Vin Diesel Quotes

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Vin Diesel

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 18, 1967

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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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

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I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

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You get a timeless cool card in New York.

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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 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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We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

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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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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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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 am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

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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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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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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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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

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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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