"I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position."
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"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."
"When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished."
"I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names."
"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."
"What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time."
"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 find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions."
"Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me."
"My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature."
"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 remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie."
"My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household."
"Vin Diesel and I have different approaches to life. We found a respect for one another but we were such opposite ends of the spectrum. The reason why it's worked is because we are so different. I don't know if we necessarily found a stride together because there are certain days I still want to crack him in the head! But he looks at me and there are days he wants to crack me in the head too. Then there are times he'll look at me and say, 'Man, I wish I could be more like you,' and I'm like, 'F**ker, I wish I could be more like you!'"
"I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time."
"We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart."
"I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals."
"I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity."
"There's more to life than movies."
"If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!"