Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
— Vin Diesel
The most off-limits Vin Diesel quotes that are easy to memorize and remember
Find your confidence, lead with love... the rest will follow.
Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
They say the open road helps you think. About where you've been and where you're going.
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.
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 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.
Show me how you drive and I'll show you who you are.
IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!
The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.
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.
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 think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.
We all deal with being unfairly judged.
We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.
Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.
I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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.
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.
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.
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.
I'm a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.
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.
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.
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.
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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.
I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.
Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production.
The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.
I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV.
I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece.
You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
If you believe in the project, you have to support it.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
Fight sequence to me isn't just about the athleticism.
It so often is about what the emotion that is behind it and how willing you are to really, really challenge that emotion or really take that emotion to that place so you're feeling a certain intensity for the whole time when you're shooting the actual physical scenes.
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.
When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.
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.
When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.
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.