Vin Diesel Quotes

For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

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• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Try
  • Add

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

  

  Francesca Annis
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  • Stop

• Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.

  

  Parker Harris
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  • Need
  • Customers

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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  • Story
  • Birth

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
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  • Food
  • Junk Food

• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Men
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  • Black

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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  • Escape

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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  • Russia

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
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  • Character
  • Fun

• I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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  • Want
  • Cool

• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Fiction

• Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

  

  David Hume
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • American
  • America

• For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

  

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