Paul Walker Quotes

I'm really close to all of my family.

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

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

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

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

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.

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

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.

If one day the speed kills me dont be sad because i will have died smiling

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't go for the flash and panache.

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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

My family's really close.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

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 dont want to have contacts with those people. Look at what happened to River Phoenix. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.

There's more to life than movies.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If one day the speed kills me, don't cry. Because I was smiling.

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.

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