Vin Diesel Quotes And Sayings

I Used To Feel Guilty About Owning A Console.

It's Really Bizarre Because No One Knows This, But Elephants Have Killed More Animal Trainers Than Any Other Animal.

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.

I Don't Think A Lot Of Actors Talk About It, But There's Usually A Process Where You Essentially Purge Yourself Of The Character That You Played Prior To The Movie.

I've Been Auditioning Since I Was 7 Years Old.

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.

I Look Formidable.

Most Of My Confidence Came From Being With Ladies, Because I Certainly Wasn't Getting Any Acting Jobs.

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.

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.

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.

I've Worked Out For Years. For A Long Time, It Was My Only Sense Of Gratification.

I Act Because It's The One Time I'm Sure Of My Identity. There's No Doubt. It's On Paper.

The Man Who Raised Me Is Black. Culturally, He Made Me Who I Am. He Was A Theatre Director, So He Also Guided Me Artistically.

None Of The Actor Methods Ever Discussed What It Would Be Like To Play A Character On Film For Over A Decade, And What It Must Be Like To Return To A Character And Imagine The Time Off-screen, Which Is Interesting. There's Something As An Actor That I Enjoy About Evolving Characters.

The Thing I'm Scared Of Most Is Not Fulfilling My Work. There's So Much Anxiety Around Trying To Get A Movie Made That You Don't Really Get To Be Afraid Of Anything Else.

I Haven't Had That Many Weird Encounters With Fans, Thank God.

Every Actor Has Their Own Process. For Me, I Really Need To Stay In The Pocket. So, 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.

The Reality Is That I Always Envisioned The 'Riddick' Franchise As A Continuing Mythology, So I Always Imagined That There Would Be Many Other Films To Follow.

I Try To Create An Environment Where, When We Step Onto The Set, We're All In Character.

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.

For The 'Riddick' Character, I Try To Get As Ruthless As Possible, And I Want To Be A Machine.

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.

For The 'Riddick' Character, I Try To Get As Ruthless As Possible, And I Want To Be A Machine.

I Was Walking Around With The Babies So Much That When I Got To The Sidney Lumet Picture, I Would Be On Set In Between Takes And I'd Be Rocking Back And Forth. Just Standing Like This Rocking Back And Forth, And Sidney Would Say, Why Are You Walking Like That In Between Takes?

I Talk Too Much.

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.

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.

I Think A Few Pictures At A Time.

The Films That I Do Are Deep, Introspective, Brooding Roles That You're In This Heavy Headspace All The Time.

A Day With My Kids Is The Best Day.

I Always Have Issues With Trust. I'm A New Yorker... Really, I Think Trust Is Something That Comes From The Gut. And I Think You Have To - It's Probably The Worst Advice To Give People - But I Think You Gotta Trust People From Your Gut.

I Am Definitely A Person Of Color.

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.

I Approach 'Fast &Amp; Furious 6' The Same Way I Would Approach A Sidney Lumet Film. Getting Into Character's Getting Into Character.

Obviously, For Me, Story Is First And Foremost, Even In The Face Of The Attractive Idea Of Having All The Cast There, Or Having A Great Piece Of Talent Come To It.

I've Directed Independent Film.

I Could Care Less About Being An Action Actor Like Stallone Or Schwarzenegger.

We All Deal With Being Unfairly Judged.

If You Think About My Filmography, I Have Never Done A Movie That A Kid Could Go See, Except For 'Iron Giant,' And I'm Not Even On The Screen.

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.