If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!
My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.
I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.
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'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.
I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.
I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.
When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like 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!
I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.
I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn't happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.
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.
My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
As for Hollywood, I've got a killer job, and I'm having a blast. I have the luxury to go on trips whenever I want and invite my friends who can't afford it. And, God willing, I'll be able to do all that till the day I die.
I don't go for the flash and panache.
I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
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 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.
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 lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or whatever. It's always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That's just the way he always was.
Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.
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.
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 wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
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 thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.
I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.
My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.
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.
Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so I was pretty funky. The teachers didn't give me a hard time, though, even though I was totally way out of line in terms of my dress code.
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 really like the Evo from '2Fast.' That car is a lot of fun as a daily driver. They're really quick on the track, too, when they're set up right.
It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.
Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.
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.
I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!
I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.
I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.
You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.
Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.
