Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.