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Paul Walker

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 12, 1973

I'm really close to all of my family.

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I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

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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.

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I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.

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There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

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In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I'm across the board.

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I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.

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I don't go for the flash and panache.

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I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

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I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.

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I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'

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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.

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My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

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I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

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My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

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That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

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I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

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I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

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I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

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Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

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