Paul Walker
In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I'm across the board.
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 don't go for the flash and panache.
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.
When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.
I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.
If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!
I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.
I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.
I love long-range rifle shooting. I like anything that deals with precision. I also find that with archery. On my ranch, I have my own range with 3-D targets of animals and hay bales from different distances.
The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, 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.
I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so I was pretty funky. The teachers didn't give me a hard time, though, even though I was totally way out of line in terms of my dress code.
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.
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.
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.
As for Hollywood, I've got a killer job, and I'm having a blast. I have the luxury to go on trips whenever I want and invite my friends who can't afford it. And, God willing, I'll be able to do all that till the day I die.
What I've found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it's the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.
I almost sabotaged my career. 'The Fast and the Furious' didn't let me, and I'm grateful now. That franchise gave me the opportunity.
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've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.
My family's really close.
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.
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.
I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.
I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.
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.
One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I've never pulled this myself.
I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.
I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.
I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.
'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.
The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.
If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.Collection: One Day
Remember That No Matter How Cool You Think You May Be, You Are Not Cool Enough To Look Down On Any One...Ever.Collection: Thinking
Train your mind to see the good in everythingCollection: Mind
If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smilingCollection: One Day
If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.Collection: Play
You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.Collection: Smart
People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.Collection: Talking
It's funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.Collection: People
I don’t go where people are. I go where the people aren’t.Collection: People