"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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The word “therapeutic” does a lot of work here. Diesel isn’t claiming enlightenment; he’s describing relief. Shaving your head is an act of control that reads as toughness in public, but in his telling it’s closer to self-soothing. For an actor whose persona trades on durability and dominance, this is an unusually intimate admission: the hard exterior is maintained through soft, sensory comfort. The hand on the scalp becomes a grounding technique, an accessible form of calm when your job is to be watched, photographed, and judged.
Context matters: in celebrity culture, hair is rarely just hair. It’s narrative - youth, virility, reinvention, marketability. Diesel quietly reframes the “look” as something chosen for internal reasons, not just image management. He’s also giving fans a way to read his signature style as an origin story: not vanity, not surrender to genetics, but a deliberate simplification that turns the body into a familiar, reassuring surface.
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Diesel, Vin. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-shaved-my-head-about-15-years-ago-and-the-first-87011/
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Diesel, Vin. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-shaved-my-head-about-15-years-ago-and-the-first-87011/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-shaved-my-head-about-15-years-ago-and-the-first-87011/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





