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" I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. "

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" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "

" I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do. "

" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "

" I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful. "

" Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. "

" Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. "

" You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. "

" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "

" Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that? "

" I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. "

" I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic. "

" There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times. "

" I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. "

" I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. "

" If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do. "

" One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene. "

" My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. "

" In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers. "

" What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God. "

" I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories. "

" A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed. "

" I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday. "

" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "

" Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!' "

" It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important. "

" I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked. "

" That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other. "

" I always wanted to be an astronaut. "

" Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together. "