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

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 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.

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

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.'

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

I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Everyone has an opinion.

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.

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.

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

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'm really close to all of my family.

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 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.

Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.

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.

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

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

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

My family's really close.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

'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 don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. The things I'm drawn to are outdoorsy, I only get dressed up when I have to. I'm drawn to women who are into the same type of thing. If you're going to call it romantic, I'm very spontaneous. That's probably the best thing I have going 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.