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Paul Walker [1973-2013] American

Rank: 101
Actor

Paul William Walker IV was an American actor. Walker began his career guest-starring in several television shows such as The Young and the Restless and Touched by an Angel.

Mom, Sports, Attitude, Car, Cool, Dad, Diet, Experience, Father's Day, Freedom, Health, Home, Hope, Money, Movies, Parenting, Patience, Romantic, Work

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It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.	Work	101
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.	Home, Sports	102
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.	Health	103
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.	Experience	104
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.	Sports	105
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?	Attitude	106
My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.		107
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.		108
I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.	Car	109
I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.		110
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.		111
I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.		112
Everyone has an opinion.		113
There's more to life than movies.	Movies	114
I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.		115
I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!		116
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.		117
You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.		118
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.		119
If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!		120
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.		121
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.		122
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'	Father's Day, Mom	123
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.	Cool	124
I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.		125
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.	Freedom	126
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.		201
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.	Hope, Money	202
I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.		203
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.		204
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.	Dad	205
I don't go for the flash and panache.		206
My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.		207
My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.	Mom	208
My family's really close.		209
My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.		210
I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.		211
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.		212
I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.		213
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.		214
My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.	Diet, Mom	215
I'm really close to all of my family.		216
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.'		217
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.		218
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.		219
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.	Parenting	220
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.		221
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.		222
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.		223
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.		224
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.		225
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.		226
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.		301
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.		302
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.		303
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.		304
'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.		305
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.		306
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.		307
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.		308
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.		309
I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.		310
I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.		311
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.		312
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!		313
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.	Romantic	314
Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.		315
When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.		316
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.		317
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.		318
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.		319
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.		320
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.		321
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.		322
The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.		323
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.		324
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.		325
I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.		326
Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.		401
I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.		402
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.		403
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.		404
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.		405
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.		406
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.'		407
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.		408
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.		409
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.	Patience	410
In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I'm across the board.		411
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.		412
I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.		413

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