Quotes from Paul Walker

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

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

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

I like being surrounded by great people.

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.

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'm really close to all of my family.

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.

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 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.

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