Quotes by Vin Diesel

“The things I do for my country.”

“Youre not afraid of the dark, are you?”

“You break her heart, Ill break your neck.”

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.”

“It doesnt matter if you win by a second or a mile, winning is winning!”

“You are in my good graces, but you aint keepen your car.”

“I said a 10 second, not a 10 minute car.”

“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 couldnt be that, Id want to be a superhero.”

“I live my life a quarter mile at a time.For those ten seconds or least Im free nothing else matter”

“You have to live Plan A-on any level. Make it a lowercase a if you have to, but live your Plan A. Anything else belittles the importance of life.”

“Every thing is doing my why no highway way option do you copy”

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

If youre the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, youve 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.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

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.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... Ive never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

With age, you get to a place where you dont want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because were 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.

If its an amazing role, Ill do anything.

Ive turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.