Paul Walker Quotes

I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

I said I would like to do some theatre, so people started searching for some jobs for me, and I didn't think it would be the lead role in 'Equus.'

I didn't expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite content doing Shakespeare out in Wisconsin.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

I'm good at forgetting auditions, and then there is a surprise to getting something.

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

I did a guest episode of 'Royal Pains,' and then right after that, 'Supergirl' happened, and I was like, 'How did I get here?' Every day, I walk on set, and I'm waiting for someone to be like, 'Ma'am, you can't be here.'

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.

I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.