Quotes from Emile Hirsch

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer ' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.