Quotes By Vin Diesel

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

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.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

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.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Women are sacred.

I am definitely a person of color.

I look formidable.

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 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 talk too much.

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.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

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'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.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

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.

Deal-making goes on with any job.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

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.

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?

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.

I think a few pictures at a time.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.