Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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XAVIER RUDD I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're wo... ZACHARY KNIGHTON I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became C... BETHANY HAMILTON I would like the UNCW Surf Club to be a place for all students no matter what ability to come togeth... CLAIRE MAGEE I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.' REID SCOTT I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to... MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN The Surf Industry has become a private club, and I’ve never been one to join clubs. I just like to... DREW BROPHY 'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respe... MAX LANDIS Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it... KARY MULLIS 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climb... ALEX HONNOLD I look at him as a surfing mentor. He put a lot of time into the young kids. He's one of the most su... ALEX GRAY 'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very w... VIGGO MORTENSEN I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be th... BETHANY HAMILTON I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing... PAUL WALKER 'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of mo... TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it... TOBY EMMERICH I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or th... NICK NOLTE I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are ... JACK HUSTON It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening. BEN MENDELSOHN You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it... JAMES L. BROOKS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup a... PETER HELLER Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometim... BETHANY HAMILTON But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whet... EDDIE HUANG Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it&... DAVE LOMBARDO Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we... AVA DUVERNAY I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' ... DEMETRI MARTIN My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in E... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own cul... DAVID SYLVIAN What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That'... ELLE FANNING I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability ... ANTHONY GOLDBLOOM I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wron... JOHN LE CARRE I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blen... REEM ACRA I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who ... HUNTER HAYES There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. ... KELLY SLATER 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in ... MICHELLE OBAMA When I started surfing, I'd forget about everyone and everything and just go out and surf, ... I sur... KELLY SLATER Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing. ALANA BLANCHARD When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey. KELLY SLATER Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shoppi... ALANA BLANCHARD Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown. AUBREY PLAZA I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr... MATT DILLON Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the s... FRANK MILLER I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still... MAXWELL Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's... HIROYUKI SANADA Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a l... EVAN DAUGHERTY I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take tw... FRANKIE MUNIZ I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not t... PHIL COLLINS You know, I'm just a beach bum. I can go surfing all the time down on Huntington Beach and Malibu be... EDDIE MONEY It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, bu... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence... SCOTT WEISS Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyon... P. J. O'ROURKE Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has ... HALEY REINHART All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's no... BRODY JENNER I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of t... PATRICK MARBER I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee h... JOHN LE CARRE I'm a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are... ALEXANDRE AJA It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'... IOAN GRUFFUDD Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you ge... JONAH HILL I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ... MADHURI DIXIT From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three mi... DAMON LINDELOF I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's curre... EDDIE MONEY When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a ... BALTASAR KORMAKUR Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just s... CHRIS ROCK I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike. CAROLYN MURPHY Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick... LOUIS THEROUX Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player... ROB LOWE Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me. BETHANY HAMILTON What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better? 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always ar... PAUL WALKER
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XAVIER BECERRA According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age ... XAVIER BECERRA The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to ha... XAVIER BECERRA February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that... XAVIER BECERRA Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. XAVIER BECERRA The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters... XAVIER DOLAN Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer. XAVIER DOLAN Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. ST.FRANCIS XAVIER Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending... CHICO XAVIER Life can be seen through your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your hea... MARY XAVIER Life can be seen your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. MARY XAVIER It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage... XAVIER BECERRA Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix. XAVIER NIEL Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for lat... XAVIER DOLAN Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college... XAVIER BECERRA The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but ... XAVIER DOLAN Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard. XAVIER NIEL We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different... XAVIER DOLAN Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting. XAVIER BECERRA My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was appl... XAVIER BECERRA