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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.

Vin Diesel

Time Would Which

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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.

Time Art Years Ago

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

Until Understood UN

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

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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

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

Dreams Your Dreams Your

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

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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.

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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.

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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

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I am definitely a person of color.

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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

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I always have issues with trust.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Relationship Experience Wit

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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.

Money Years Year

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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.

Teacher Good Art

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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.

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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.

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I have dangerous bones in my body.

Anger Us Dangerous

I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

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

I love women more than anything.

I think a few pictures at a time.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

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.

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?'

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

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

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.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

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

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.

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?

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 try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

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