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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

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Vin Diesel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 18
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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