“For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially.”

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

Everybody’s human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

I’m pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

I want to be a man’s man – not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

My old man is a man of few words.

We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it’s impossible. It’s out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.

It’s hard to nap on Saturday or the weekends.

They were actually really nice to me [in Fast 8]. We had BBQs every day on set. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of good times.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

My father always told me that. Nobody knows anything, so don’t listen to anyone else.

Some outlets shouldn’t even call themselves news providers; they’re just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

The motto I live by is you can’t out-train bad nutrition . You’ve got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.

I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what’s said in the comments.

I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there’s probably a lot that we don’t know. That’s what is really interesting.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.