Quotes About Adventure

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

I love Berlin.

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

The best way to become a better stand-up guy is to take a break from it and do other things.

I do my best work alone. I travel alone a lot.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

I had always wanted to see Europe, and what better way to see it than to spend a year there playing basketball?

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

Playing in Europe is a big deal, it helps you to grow.

I've always been a big fan of books.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I would love to do a big movie - a 'Marvel' movie.

Obviously, 'Fast' has been a big part of my life.