Vin Diesel Quotes

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

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

Find your confidence, lead with love... the rest will follow.

They say the open road helps you think. About where you've been and where you're going.

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

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.

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 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.

When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.

Show me how you drive and I'll show you who you are.

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

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life, will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.

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

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

I never think of people's nationality too much. I always look at everybody the same. It's impossible for me to just say one group of people over separate groups of people. Maybe it's because I was raised in New York City which is this melting pot. Everybody was always the same and the whole point of my whole film existence was to say that we're just one race.

Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.

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.

We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.

Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

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

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

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

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.

I have dangerous bones in my body.

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.

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.

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

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 you believe in the project, you have to support it.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

It's very rewarding to see the movie, and it's very rewarding to make the movie, but playing the character [Riddick] is sometimes a lot more difficult than other characters because it takes so much preparation to get into that character.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

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.

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.

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 grew up with all kinds of people.

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.