Top 142 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Walker

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Paul Walker

Paul William Walker IV was an American actor. He was known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise.

If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!
I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. — © Paul Walker
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
There's more to life than movies.
Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.
I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, 'I should be there; I should be helping out.'
I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.
I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.
I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.
I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.
'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick. — © Paul Walker
I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.
I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.
We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!
I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
Everyone has an opinion.
I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That's it. I don't have the time or patience for anything else. I'm a natural kind of guy. I don't style my hair - never learned how.
I don't go for the flash and panache.
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
What I've found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it's the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.
I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.
My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.
I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.
My family's really close. — © Paul Walker
My family's really close.
I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I'd be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.
The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.
The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!
My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.
I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
The dream is to have it all. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time - I want to get it all in.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English. — © Paul Walker
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.
There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.
When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.
I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. The things I'm drawn to are outdoorsy, I only get dressed up when I have to. I'm drawn to women who are into the same type of thing. If you're going to call it romantic, I'm very spontaneous. That's probably the best thing I have going for me.
I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
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