Paul Walker Quotes

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

I like to make big decisions when I am at home living a routine life, getting up, walking my dog, having breakfast, when I have no pressure. I do not like doing it when I making a film. It is too stressful.

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.

There's more to life than movies.

I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a lasting passion. We went on nature walks and I became fascinated with the environment as I got older.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

Train your mind to see the good in everything

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 make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Frank Marshall is very level headed and wonderful to work with. He he has a resume that is probably twelve miles long. As a human being he is so unassuming and is also consistent and so nice to everyone, he treats everyone on the set with great respect, it doesn't matter who they are and that says a lot about him.

If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling

I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

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

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it.

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.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.