Quotes By Vin Diesel

I grew up with all kinds of people.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

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 could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

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.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

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.

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.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

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.

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

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.

I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.

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.

I love women more than anything.

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.

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

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 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.

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.

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.

I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

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.