You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Paul Walker
My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.
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.
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
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 think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
The dream is to have it all. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time - I want to get it all in.
The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!
There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.
I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.
I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
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'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.
It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.
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 fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
I don't go for the flash and panache.
I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.
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.
You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.
I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.
The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.
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 have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn't happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.
I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I'd be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.
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.
There's more to life than movies.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.
I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.
I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.
I'm really close to all of my family.
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.
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 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'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.
I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!
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'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
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.
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'
