Quotes About Adventure

My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

Honestly, my idea of a fun night out is something like being in the middle of America in a pickup truck with a few friends.

There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.

When I left Baltimore I put everything I owned in my dad's pick-up truck and drove cross-country to make it as a rockstar in L.A.

Where we shot in India, you could literally dump the camera off the back of the truck and you'd have an amazing shot.

When I'm in the truck on my own I play big, open space music, such as Ry Cooder or Latin stuff.

You hear stories about the horror crashes of the Dakar Rally, which is a long 16-day race, and about people getting lost in the desert, and they're all true. Every 20 minutes, you were just about to crash. Bikes, cars and trucks all race at the same time.

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

'Monster Trucks' is like a big action movie.

That one was stunt heavy. 'Monster Trucks' was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should've never let me do.

I have raced trucks in the off-road world but to now have the opportunity to race trucks next season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a dream come true.

'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.

Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.

Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'

When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

I'm always fascinated by something that leaves the surface of the earth. My series, 'Rocket Man', was based on a true story of a man who put his wife's ashes into space.

To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit.