In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough