Quotes By Vin Diesel

I've directed independent 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.

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

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 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 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.