Quotes About Adventure

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

I'm an outdoorsy person. I really enjoy the hiking in L.A.

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that.

I didn't want to direct any more theatre because I wanted to try something different, to move into another realm.

You know, when you do something that's different and out of your realm, you want to pick the right time.

No matter what's behind us in the rearview mirror, it's always about what's next.

If I buy a new car, I rip the rearview mirror off because I don't like to look back.

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

A lot of people ask why I don't fly for the airlines now. It's because of the rebel in me that doesn't like rules.

There's a side of me that wants to rebel, and as soon as you go down this path with a movie, and you're supposed to go right, I want to go left, just to see what it's like. I just want to do it,because the more I know you aren't supposed to do something, the more I want to do it.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.

We're skateboarders, we have rebellious ways.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.