“My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.”

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I’d just do a wave of movies, and then I’d burn out. They just kept coming together.

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.

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

My perfect weekend, anything to do with nature.

I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.

If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

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.

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.

I don’t go where people are. I go where the people aren’t.

If I lost weight, I’d be two-dimensional!

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don’t know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She’s so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that.

Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

I’m going to enjoy every little tiny moment with my family cause when crunch time comes it gets really lonely.

It’s not your fault you were born into a poor family or country.

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.

I’m so private that my own family rarely knows me.

I’ve got a really good family; I’ve got great friends around me.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

It is a moral outrage that the richest family in America pays workers at Walmart starvation wages.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.