43 Iconic Vin Diesel Quotes to Live A Legendary Life

He’s emerged among the world’s biggest movie stars and highest grossing actors. Vin Diesel’s muscle-bound stature, tough-guy persona and distinctive voice have resulted in a legendary life he continues to lead as with an unstoppable career and fans increasing across the globe.

Born Mark Sinclair in 1967 in California, Vin Diesel is an American actor and filmmaker. He made his stage debut aged seven, appearing in the children’s play Dinosaur Door, in New York’s Greenwich Village. Initially he broke into the theatre with his brother and friends to vandalise it, before being discovered by artistic director Crystal Field. She offered them roles in the upcoming show, instead of calling the police. Diesel remained involved with the theatre throughout his adolescence and studied creative writing in college, which led to screenwriting.

His first film role was a brief appearance in Awakenings in 1990. In 1995 he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the short drama film Multi-Facial which was a semi-autobiographical movie. It was selected for screening at the 1995 Cannes Festival.

Diesel continued to take on roles in the film industry, with performances in The Iron Giant, Boiler Room, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick and The Pacifier. He is well known for his action hero stardom in both The Fast and the Furious franchise and the XXX franchise. Diesel’s distinctive voice has also served in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the role of loveable Groot in the Guardians of the Galaxy series.

In 2020, Diesel announced his transition to the music industry, and released Feel Like I Do, produced by Kygo.

The Hollywood star is a legend of the film industry and continues to dominate the big screen with powerful characters every child wants to be. His words are spoken with passion and intrigue as he instils the potential for that legendary status reach among us all.

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

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

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

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5. 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.

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6. 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.

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

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8. A person in my position has to restrain himself.

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9. I grew up with all kinds of people.

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10. 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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11. 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.

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12. 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.

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13. We all deal with being unfairly judged.

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14. 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.

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

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17. 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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18. 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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19. I love women more than anything.

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20. 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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21. 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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22. Deal-making goes on with any job.

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

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24. 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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25. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

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

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27. I grew up in an artist community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidized for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

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28. I’m a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

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29. I am definitely a person of color.

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30. Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

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

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

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33. 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.

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34. Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.

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

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

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37. 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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38. If it’s an amazing role, I’ll do anything.

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39. 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.

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

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

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42. You get a timeless cool card in New York.

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43. 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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