Quotes by Paul Walker

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

I'm passionate about animals and I hunt too. It's like I save and I kill. I'm a walking, talking contradiction. I'm all about preserving the environment but I'm racing cars on the weekend. I tell everyone I'm a gun-loving hippy.

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

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

It's funny to see the people connect with Fast and Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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 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.

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.

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 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'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 pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That's it. I don't have the time or patience for anything else. I'm a natural kind of guy. I don't style my hair -- never learned how.

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

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.

I like being surrounded by great people.

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

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

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.

Everyone has an opinion.

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

What I find really difficult is making career decisions.

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

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.

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

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.

Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

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

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

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

Train your mind to see the good in everything.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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 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.

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.

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.

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.

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 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.

'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.

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 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.

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.

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.

Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.

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.

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'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 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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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

I'm really close to all of my family.

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

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 wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

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

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

My family's really close.

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

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

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

I don't go for the flash and panache.

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

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

In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I'm across the board.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 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'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.'

Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or whatever. It's always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That's just the way he always was.

I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

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.

There's more to life than movies.

I really like the Evo from '2Fast.' That car is a lot of fun as a daily driver. They're really quick on the track, too, when they're set up right.

I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.

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 like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.

I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

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

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

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

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