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| Vin Diesel Quotes |
Vin Diesel: 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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Vin: I am definitely a person of color. - regarding his mysterious ethnicity
Vin Diesel: I live my life a quarter mile at a time. For those ten seconds or least I'm free nothing else matters.
Vin Diesel: There are a lot of films that explore sci-fi. What attracted me to the script is the fact that this film stands on its own. The characters and their relationships are interesting by themselves, without the creature element. In many ways it's a modern day 'Lord of the Flies'.
(Cronciles of Riddick)
Vin Diesel: The honest reason was my niece and nephew weren't allowed to see Uncle Vin movies and they're my biggest fans. I guess I got a little sick of, 'No, you can't come to this one, no, you can't come to that one, but I saw the poster, Uncle Vin'...'No, your father won't let you see this one' and so I decided to make a Disney movie. It was an opportunity to do a picture for the kids.
Vin Diesel: I had spent my life studying these guys, looking up to them, watching their work. Now I was able to have my work watched over by the same guy who was watching them? So that was an easy choice.
Vin Diesel: I had never played a real-life character. All the characters that I'd played before were fictitious. So I'd spent all this time creating the affectations and amassing all of the attributes and characteristics and mannerisms and then Jackie came to the set the first day of filming. I kicked everyone else out of my trailer and we started to talk. He told me, in his own words, just for him and I, what the whole story was about for him and what that trial meant to him. After that meeting, all of the work that had gone into building the mannerisms and attributes seemed secondary. The most important element was to understand and believe in his cause.
Vin Diesel: You can't say anything - you'll ruin me. If Hollywood finds out I'm planning a trilogy, I'll be buried.
Vin Diesel: Usually, you want to go all the way when the subject matter or topic speaks to you so much that you have these scenes playing out in your head all the time. That's usually a pretty good indication that you need to find a way to make it.
Vin Diesel: All movie magic. Two hours of makeup every morning. (in reference to his tattoos for xXx)
Vin Diesel: Then I went to Europe and returned to the preparation of the Hannibal character. So I went hiking up into the Alps. I was deeply engaged in weapons training and riding elephants.
Vin Diesel: 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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Hannibal the Conqueror
Rockfish
Babylon A.D