A biography for Vin Dieselhasn’t been written yet.
“I always have issues with trust.”
“I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.”
“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.”
“I have dangerous bones in my body.”
“It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.”
“I've directed independent film.”
“A day with my kids is the best day.”
“It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.”
“Deal-making goes on with any job.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.”
“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 love women more than anything.”
“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?”
“I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.”
“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.”
“You break her heart, I'll break your neck.”
“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.”