Diesel Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  Vin Diesel

  People, Kind, Grew Up

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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

  Vin Diesel

  Roles, Film, Brooding

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

  Vin Diesel

  Heart, Cute Sister, Necks

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• Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  Vin Diesel

  Games, Video, Steps

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Mom, Who I Am, Guy

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Wall, Dark, Walking Away

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Teacher, New York, Father

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Appreciation, Understanding, Dresses

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• IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

  Vin Diesel

  Winning, Matter, Inches

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• I'm a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

  Vin Diesel

  Boys, Appreciate, Body

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

  Vin Diesel

  Actors, Care, Action

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, Magic, Trying

  "Interview: Vin Diesel". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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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.

  Vin Diesel

  Revenge, Dirty, Loss

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Tv Shows, Trying, Tvs

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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.

  Vin Diesel

  Trying, Looks, Feminine

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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.

  Vin Diesel

  Congratulations, Stupid, Feel Good

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Team, Bullshit, Driving Fast

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• We all deal with being unfairly judged.

  Vin Diesel

  Deals, Judged

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, Practice, Champion

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• 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.

  Vin Diesel

  Dark, Marijuana, Reality

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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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.

  Vin Diesel

  Saving Private Ryan, Gamer, Amazement

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

  Vin Diesel

  Girl, Night, Goes On

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• Deal-making goes on with any job.

  Vin Diesel

  Jobs, Goes On, Deals

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

  Vin Diesel

  Mother, Supportive, World

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