When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.