Quotes About Adventure

I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

We've been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

For 'Monster Hunter,' we needed insane landscapes.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

I grew up exploring my neighborhood and beyond, and would love to give my daughter that kind of freedom.

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

When you say you are from Nepal, people always ask you if you've seen Everest. And I had to say no. I felt like I had to go and do this, just for my sanity.

I got a motorbike at three; we've still got it. It was an R50. Hopefully my little nephews will play on it.

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.

While I was playing, I started a company that didn't work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I'm not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, 'Let's go for it,' even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.

As I've got older, the nerves aren't there anymore; they just left one day when I was at Watford. I only feel excitement now, whatever the game.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.