Vin Diesel Quotes

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

Fatherhood didn't just happen to me. I am deliberately living it, re-imagining it, and rediscovering it every day. It is as beautiful as I make it, just like anything else in life.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

If you have kids, you feel everything stronger. It's like someone turning the lights on in your inner room.

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.