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Vin Diesel, born on July 18, 1967, is a renowned American actor. He is best known for his leading role in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise, which has made him a global super hero movie star. Besides his achievements in film, Vin Diesel has ventured into music and directing.

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“No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter-mile away or halfway around the world, you'll always be with me and you'll always be my brother.”

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“Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.”

Hiring Diesel Babysitter

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

Children Actors Tree Casts Child Actors

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“Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.”

Way Actors Directors Hollywood One Way Contempt

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“It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to make people see the movie a lot. The music is going to make you want to go see it again. You have so much fun in the movie, and it's music that you want to share with your kids, anyway.”

People Thinking Want Important Kids Fun Share Music Is Storytelling Remarkable Soundtracks

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“I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.”

Character Spiritual Levels

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

Way Long Long Way You Again

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“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.”

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

Thinking Helping Open Road

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

People Important Right Now Important Things Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

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“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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“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.”

Sometimes Character Difficult Preparation

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“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.”

Needs Should Character Actors Process Focused Pockets

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Character Able Producers Shooting Wardrobe Diesel

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“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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“I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.”

Thinking Hollywood Harmony Oneness Sunny

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“I don't know when the last time was that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas made a movie with Universal, but I can tell you that Universal is leading the charge. They're looking at film differently. They're planning ahead in a way that I've never seen a studio do before. They're believing in a relationship between fan and film franchise, in a new way. They're more receptive to an audience, in part because of social media, in a way we've never been allowed.”

Knows Way Believe Made I Can Lasts Film Social Audience Fans Media Universal Studios Social Media Planning New Ways Last Time Receptive Planning Ahead

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“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.”

Trying Persons Ideas War Today Next Stars Millions Following Luxury Feedback

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

Ifs Has Beens Gone Wind Pages Diesel Facebook Page

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“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.”

Knows Feels Play Character Enjoy Sound Corny Therapeutic Quintessential Antiheroes

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“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."”

Ifs Years Stars Acting Seven Seven Years

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

People Believe Can Do Believe In You Miraculous

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“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.”

People Want Film Actors Effort Scene Stronger Shining Stealing Filmmaking Collaborative Effort

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“I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.”

Want Persons Self Film Used Guy Fighting Hurt Too Much Conscious Responsible Great Things Selling Contact Damage Wrestling Sequence Self Conscious Being Responsible Explosives Specialty

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

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“Fight sequence to me isn't just about the athleticism. It so often is about what the emotion that is behind it and how willing you are to really, really challenge that emotion or really take that emotion to that place so you're feeling a certain intensity for the whole time when you're shooting the actual physical scenes.”

Whole Feelings Certain Fighting Challenges Emotion Behinds Willing Scene Shooting Intensity Sequence Often Is Athleticism

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“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.”

Want I Can Sometimes Choices Actors Can Do Expectations Obvious Best Things

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“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.”

Needs Kind Play Actors Stuff Process Jokes Majority Productions Breathe Filmmaking New Stuff

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“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 this movie, you can see a director who loves his actors, and it shines through the movie, in my eyes.”

Eye Film Actors Watches Directors Labor Shining Fruit

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“I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.”

Ifs Way Years Action Film Certain Acting New York Approach Puberty Physicality Action Films

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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.”

Trying Looks Persons Art Together Pieces Magic Periods Filmmaking Coming Together Diesel

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

Important Car Wardrobe

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

Writing Enough Consistently

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“I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.”

Critical Perfectionist

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“When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."”

World Writing Rooms Worst Beats Critics Retarded

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“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.”

Thinking Needs Courses Fashion Extremes Reserves Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

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“I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.”

Believe I Believe Attention Special Projects I Believe In

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

Ifs Believe Support Projects If You Believe

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

Millions Dollars Million Dollars Turned Down

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“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.”

Different Reason Whole Together Special Something Special Whole Family Different Experiences

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“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.”

Thinking Issues Guts Tangible New Yorkers

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“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."”

Ifs Mean Persons Film Easy Wonderful Directors

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“The first thing that happens is the cleansing of the former character. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there is usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character played prior to the movie. Then you want to think about what the character represents, and you write down all of the elements about this character and then take the time to find some synchronicity and start breathing the character.”

Thinking Want Writing Firsts Character Happens Actors Process Elements Former Breathing Synchronicity Cleansing

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“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.”

Bits Process Acting Teacher Son Grew Grew Up Internals Articulating Acting Teachers

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“I'm a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.”

Together Film Guy Fantasy Elements Aspect Sci Fi

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“Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.”

Knows Know How Minutes Heroic Heroism Quintessential Antiheroes

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“I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my dreams a reality, I had to take the reigns. I had to learn something about being productive and being self what's the word I'm looking for? Self-sufficient, but I had to be productive at all costs and I had to make product.”

Ifs Years Self Dream Reality Acting Products Cost Seven Sufficient Productive Reign Seven Years Self Sufficient

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“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.”

People Thinking Looks Whole Film Race Cities Existence Too Much Impossible Groups New York Raised Just One Pot New York City Nationality Melting Melting Pot

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“In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It's something that's not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you're always pushing people and you're pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.”

People Thinking Hollywood Rap Being The Best Pushing Perfectionist Push Yourself

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“I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.”

Ifs I Can White Existence Harmony Indian Just One Latin Asian

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Born: July 18, 1967
Known for: Actor
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