VIN DIESEL

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

on his rough days ... "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."

on why he didn't do the Fast and the Furious sequel ... "I was being offered three franchises at the same time - Pitch Black, XXX, and The Fast and the Furious - and I had to choose. I couldn't do all three."

on the XXX poster and what it means for his career ... This isn't a poster. This is a declaration of war!"

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

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."

on his career before acting ... "I was a bouncer for nine years - it was all I knew how to do - and my training was not to talk loosely...That's still my thought process: Shut your mouth, watch your back and keep working till your ass falls off."

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Vin Diesel worked as a bouncer in New York at the famous nightclubs Tunnel (which has since closed) and Mars.

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• He has a fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent, who is a film editor.

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He has an Italian Mastiff named "Roman".

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Vin Diesel has 2 sisters

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He is ranked #46 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List

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He's an admitted fan of Dungeons and Dragons, and, according to an interview on Conan O'Brian , he played for 24 years.

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He is bi-racial, being half African-American and half Italian American

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He was offered the role of Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Daredevil that eventually went to Ben Affleck.

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Wrote an original screenplay titled "Doormen" (based on his experiences as a bouncer) as a follow-up to Strays, his directorial debut. However, his acting career exploded and his plans to direct the film have fallen by the wayside.

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He was cast opposite Ben Affleck in Reindeer Games, but left the production shortly after filming began over concerns with the quality of Ehren Kruger's screenplay and creative differences with director John Frankenheimer.

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During his teens, he performed breakdancing in an instructional video on the subject.