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
  • Character
  • 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
  • Want
  • 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
  • Character
  • 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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  • Wish
  • Try

• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Writing
  • Being
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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
  • Me
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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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  • Home

• 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 feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  

  Epictetus
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  • Model
  • Personality

• I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

  

  Tom Odell
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  • Memories

• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Important
  • Why
  • Future

• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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  • Thought
  • Guilty

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

  

  Vin Diesel
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