Top 90 Vin Diesel Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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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52. “I’m a perfectionist. I’m very critical, especially artistically.”

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53. “I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.”

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54. “I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.”

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55. “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.”

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56. “Any film that you see is never just the director. If it’s a film that you love, it’s not so easy to say, “Oh it’s directed by this person – that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful.””

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57. “Deal-making goes on with any job.”

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

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

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60. “I grew up with all kinds of people.”

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

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62. “A person in my position has to restrain himself.”

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63. “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.”

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64. “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.”

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

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66. “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.”

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67. “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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68. “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.”

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69. “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.”

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70. “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.”

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71. “If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.”

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72. “To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of that labor. You can see that translated in the film. When you watch such movie, you can see a director who loves his actors, and it shines through the movie, in my eyes.”

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73. “Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.”

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74. “I always have issues. I’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don’t think it’s anything specific. I don’t think it’s anything tangible.”

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75. “When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.”

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76. “If you believe in the project, you have to support it.”

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77. “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?”

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

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79. “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.”

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

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81. “When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.”

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82. “The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you’ve planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe – but it needs to come from a place where it’s completely structured.”

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83. “I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I’ve never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.”

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84. “You get a timeless cool card in New York.”

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85. “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.”

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86. “I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: “If I’m not a star by the time I’m 18, I’ll get out of the business.””

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87. “Of course, I don’t act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don’t think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.”

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88. “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.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “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.”

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91. “I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.”

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92. “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.”

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93. “When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn’t have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It’s a luxury we have today.”

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94. “If I’m on set and I’m in character, I’m not thinking like a producer. If I’m on set and I’m not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I’m just coming on set for the moments that I’m not shooting, then I’m able to be the producer.”

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95. “I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There’s something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.”

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96. “Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We’re all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.”

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97. “I’ve directed independent film.”

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