"You have to live Plan A - on any level. Make it a lowercase 'A' if you have to, but live your Plan A. Anything else belittles the importance of life."

Vin talks about his stepfather:
''I never knew my biological father,'' says Diesel, who was reared by his stepfather, who taught theater, and his mother, an astrologist. ''I consider myself truly multiracial because my stepfather was also black. He is the one who culturally made me who I am.''

"Well, I've worked out for years. For a long time it was my only sense of gratification."

Vin about directing again:
He wants to direct again but "I find there is less and less time! You stack the productions up, each is nine months or a year. This just isn't movies for used-car prices." (San Diego Union-Tribune)

"I would get into fights with other bouncers when a guy was already on the floor and the other guys thought it was alright to jump up in the air and land on the guy's head."

Vin about being a car guy: SO, BE HONEST. ARE YOU A CAR GUY? Am I what? Where are you from? No, I am not a car guy. There it is. The truth. I've done it, I've confessed.(Request Magazine)

"I am definitely a person of color." - regarding his mysterious ethnicity

Vin on his motivation to do The Iron Giant: I .. did it because some day I'm going to have a 5 yr. old and he's going to be asked on that first day of school: "What does your daddy do?" and he'll be able to say "He's the Irong Giant!" (MSN Live chat 2000)

On the planned Chronicles of Riddick trilogy: "We gave the script to the studio, I bought three leather binders. One said C1, one said C2 and one said C3. They all had locks on them and we only gave the key to C1 to the studio".

When Vin was asked on MTV's Movie House what did it feel like to be the sexiest man in Hollywood... He said:
I've never been a "pretty boy" so it's new to me... I still don't half believe it.

Vin on the silent NY nights: "When you grow up in New York, in a household full of people, you appreciate the calmness of the night. You know, that serenity you feel walking home from a bar after a hot summer day when the night has finally cooled things down, or the peace that comes after a freshly fallen snow. the nighttime was my time."(GQ)

"Even when I would go on auditions, I had to be as amiable as possible. But I still had this edge, this threatening physical presence. And I know that isn't who I really am." - Vin Diesel, on his humble Hollywood beginnings

Vin speaks about how his mother helped him to launch his movie career: VD: She's magical, my mother. She's given me little tokens that have really helped me. In 1993, I'd just got back from LA after I'd gone off thinking I was gonna be a big movie star and all the doors would open. [laughing] A year later, I come back to New York with my tail between my legs, having to face all the people whom I'd told I was going to be a big movie star and go back to my Mom's house! And she gives me this book 'Feature Films at Used Car Prices - Make a Movie for $11,000 or less.' And what it lacked in practical, technical advice, it made up for in motivation. It was truly, truly empowering - probably the most important gift I've ever been given. Because after that I knew I could make movies and it was just a matter of money. I may not have a car, I may not be able to buy a flatscreen TV, but I was going to make movies.

Life strategy: "You have to live Plan A-on any level. Make it a lowercase a if you have to, but live your Plan A. Anything else belittles the importance of life."

Why to be an actor? "I just want to do good work. I want to do quality work. My objective is to take you out of your reality for two hours. Make it effect you." (Prevue Magazine)

Vin on the TFATF sequel: Q: Why didn't you sign on for Fast and the Furious 2? VD: Did you see The Fast and the Furious? Yes. Did you see xXx? If you had to choose a franchise, which would you choose? "This isn't a poster. This is a declaration of war!" -Re: the XXX poster and what it means for his career

Vin comments his numerous girlfriends being rumored on the net: ...none of them is accurate. Because I'll tell you something: If I'm not playing Sony PlayStation or rereading a classic or watching a goddamned foreign film or watching porn (I'm joking about the porn), my friends and I get on the Internet and find out who I'm dating, and it's always hysterical. It's really very funny. It's too preposterous to fight. They've linked me up with people I've never met. I assume there's nothing I can do about that... But at this level, I guess it's almost flattering that people care enough to create shit like that.

Vin vs Paul - who got devirginized first Jay: I NEVER EVEN HEARD OF "DEVIRGINIZED. " THAT'S EVEN A WORD I DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED. SO GO AHEAD. Vin: ALL RIGHT. MY BROTHER IS WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND. HE'S 16 YEARS OLD. AND HE COMES UPSTAIRS TO THE HOUSE AND ASKED MY FATHER IF HE SHOULD DO THIS, IF HE SHOULD ACTUALLY HAVE SEX. AND MY FATHER SAYS, "YOU KNOW, I DON'T -- PAUL, I REALLY DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD. I THINK YOU SHOULD WAIT, YOU KNOW? BECAUSE THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING. " AND HAD HE DONE IT, HE WOULD HAVE LOST HIS VIRGINITY BEFORE ME. BUT THAT'S LIKE A REAL STUPID THING TO TALK ABOUT ON "JAY LENO. " [ LAUGHTER ] YOU KNOW, YOU WAIT YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO GET ON "JAY LENO," AND YOU TALK ABOUT VIRGINITY. [LAUGHTER] Jay: DID YOU FLIP YOUR DAD A $20 FOR DOING THAT? "THANKS, P. " Vin: I WAS LIKE, "DAD, BOY, YOU MADE ME MACHO. " [ LAUGHTER ]

"In the next film, Riddick is going to go to the underverse. Riddick will act with new elementals. Not air elementals [as Judi Dench's character is] but fire and water. It'll come full circle in C3 when he must return to Furia".

On the Chronicles of Riddick: "The concept behind switching genres was to create a film that you could continue exploring. In the ending of this movie, it's not just something that says we're opening it up so we can tell another story, it's very specific. A very daring ending because it's left open-ended."

"From the very very beginning, when everyone thought it was crazy, I was thinking of The Chronicles of Riddick as a trilogy. That would start with the movie you saw, and Pitch Black would act as a prequel that introduced you to the character. So in simple terms, in Chronicles 2 we venture to the Underverse. We knew we could get away with a PG-13 on the first one, but once you go to the Underverse it's rated R, because it's a place where war is the norm and there is constant, constant battling. Then on Chronicles 3 we will see Riddick return to Furia, to deal with the homeland."