Vin Diesel Quotes

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.

The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It makes you feel more beautiful or more alone or more angry. It makes you feel much more, more, more.

I'm confident about going out there and playing - playing with emotion, screaming and yelling.

Blue' is actually my favorite chapter because it captures sadness more than the other chapters. That might sound weird but I've always been drawn to the rawest emotions.

I like to be very physical: Any sort of fight sequence is a dream to me.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes schmaltzy.

I play very, very emotional. That's just my style.

In the ring, you want every one of the 80,000 people in the building to know what you're feeling. On a movie set, every expression you make is going to get picked up times 10. They kept having to dial me back.

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.