Vin Diesel

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

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

I grew up with all kinds of people.

I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

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.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

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

I always have issues with trust.

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

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.

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.

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

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

I have dangerous bones in my body.

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.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

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 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.

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.

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.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

I've directed independent 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.

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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

I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

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

Deal-making goes on with any job.

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

I love women more than anything.

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.

The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

Women are sacred.

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 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.

None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

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?

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.

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.

The positive energy you bring here, makes the world a better place, you know it.

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

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

I look formidable.

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.

I think a few pictures at a time.

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.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

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.

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.

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

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.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

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 am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

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

I am definitely a person of color.

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

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.

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

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Its insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

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.

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 haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

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.