Phrases

-My life doesn’t change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I’m a third generation Californian, and there’s a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I’m just happy to be working, and lucky to be working.

-My father always told me that. “Nobody knows anything, so don’t listen to anyone else.”

-There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

-I want to be a man’s man – not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

-Keep your head down, work hard, and don’t ever believe your own hype, because… you just keep working.

-I have tough skin. I don’t really read any of the comments unless they are positive. I don’t accept that much negativity in my life. It’s not an option.

-People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

-My old man is a man of few words.

-My dad is really old school: “Whatever you do, just be the best at it.” He didn’t really care if I was a plumber or a roofer. It didn’t matter what I did. He said, “Go out and find out what you like to do, and be the best at it.”

-If it’s a good romantic movie like The Notebook or…The Longest Ride . No, I don’t know. I thought it would be great to work on one of those genres and we made a pretty darn good version of one of those. There are some that come off as sort of cheesy, but this one was pretty good.

-I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

-Everybody’s human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

-Dive bars are much more my thing. They’re no-nonsense.

-I hate watching myself. It’s terrible. It’s horrifying.

-I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what’s said in the comments.

-How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don’t think that’s an excuse.

-I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.

-Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I’m most at home. When I’m away from it and landlocked I long for the ocean. There’s something about it, I’m at peace with it.

-The motto I live by is “you can’t out-train bad nutrition”. You’ve got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.

-I wasn’t terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn’t quite understand difference between WikiLeaks…[Edward] Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.

-I’d like to continue my education. The physical stuff’s great and I think it’s great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that’s important.

-A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]’s character in Catch Me If You Can and … I don’t know, I really like any of his movies.

-What I’ve discovered from working with my father is that I’m still learning. I’m just a kid in this business. And I’ve seen from my father transitioning into being a director, that’s where the power lies. And, like he says, it’s feast or famine for an actor. If you’re not creating your own material, then you’re just fighting for whatever’s out there. I definitely have the desire to go to the other side.

-I couldn’t say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

-I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

-I’m a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

-Really I’m a fan of any movie, whether it’s suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

-I feel like it’s really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, “Oh, he can play that guy or he can play this guy.” You’re not just “THAT guy,” that cowboy guy, that whatever guy. Then you are limiting yourself.

-Be the leads of big films that are entertaining and maybe then cross over to stuff that moves people and has a little bit more texture to it.

-I just do what Clint Eastwood does: Keep moving forward. You can’t look back or think about that kind of stuff too much. You just keep making movies; hopefully you make some good ones.

-[Some outlets] shouldn’t even call themselves news providers; they’re just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

-[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

-You cannot out-train bad nutrition. It’s impossible.

-I don’t want to talk about the vampire schedule. That’s just gonna upset me.

-I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.

-If I’m gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

-If you try to go for a big two-hour nap, you get groggy. You wanna just nap, like close your eyes a little bit and then just fall asleep for a little bit and then get up. Then be like, “okay, I’m up.”

-It’s hard to nap on Saturday or the weekends.

-Everyone has been really accepting and brought me into the family. I had a lot of fun shooting it [ Fast 8].

-Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health.

-They were actually really nice to me [in Fast 8]. We had BBQs every day on set. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of good times.

-We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it’s impossible. It’s out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.

-Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

-There’s the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it’s a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

-What people don’t understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You’re gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there’s training leading up to it… It’s a whole life experience that people don’t see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don’t see everything that happens around it. I think it’s hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are.

-My father’s definitely old-school. And he raised me with integrity – to be places on time, show up, and work hard.

-I lived with my mom in Hawaii until I pissed her off. And then I came to live with my dad and pissed him off. He made me hustle, and claw, and fight. That’s all stuff you want. You want that drive.

-What Clint Eastwood meant was when you are directing and starring in a film, there’s a temptation to spend more time on the other actors’ performances, and then when you get to your own work, you kind of go, “Oh, yeah, well, let’s cut that.” And he said, “Take your time and make sure you do your work right.” It’s especially good advice if you’re going from one career to another.

-I remember something Clint Eastwood told me early on. I don’t remember how old I was when you told me this, Dad. But you said, “As an actor, I never went back to my trailer. I always hung out on set and learned.” That stuck with me.

-For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially.

-I never understood actors who could just wait around.

-Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

-I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].

-I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there’s probably a lot that we don’t know. That’s what is really interesting.

-They [media] don’t care if they’re hurting anybody’s family or hurting their reputation. The most interesting thing about it is that it’s people doing it to other people. It’s somebody who has a sister or a brother or a daughter or a son or a family. They don’t care.

-This guy [Edward Snowden] was a patriot. He believed very strongly in his beliefs and what he was doing for his country. So it was easy to tap into that and go, “OK, this is what this guy believes in.”

-He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren’t afraid to tell you, “Do it like this. Don’t do it like that.”

-Working with David Ayer…the guy is a great filmmaker.

-It would be creepy if you knew my home address.

-I’m pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

-I like a lot of Tom Cruise’s roles, he’s this action hero.

-I mean, there’s obviously only one Leo [DiCaprio] but I look at guys like Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and think I’d like to have that type of career… that would be really great if I could have that.

-Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn’t.

-You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.

-I’m just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

-Sometimes people just show up, which is kind of scary. And then you are like, ‘Okay guy… got to leave’.

-I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.