Paul Walker Quotes

Vin Diesel and I have different approaches to life. We found a respect for one another but we were such opposite ends of the spectrum. The reason why it's worked is because we are so different. I don't know if we necessarily found a stride together because there are certain days I still want to crack him in the head! But he looks at me and there are days he wants to crack me in the head too. Then there are times he'll look at me and say, 'Man, I wish I could be more like you,' and I'm like, 'F**ker, I wish I could be more like you!'

Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

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.

Taking chances for the people you care most about is easy. It's hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. I make them without even thinking about it, it is usually something that just has to be done. You don't question anything, you just go for it.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

My family's really close.

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished.

I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.

I'm really close to all of my family.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!

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.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

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

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix [who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room]. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.

I don’t go where people are. I go where the people aren’t.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She's so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that.

I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

I feel I have lived my whole life, day to day, without planning anything and I like it that way. Things change so fast, one minute you are here, the next minute you are on a plane, it's great fun.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

Everyone has an opinion.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

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

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

I like having to figure out how to pull things off, how to sell it, how to make it look real, but not just real, make it look better.

I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of.

I like being surrounded by great people.

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?