Shane West Quotes

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don`t know.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

But it`s cool to be noticed for the smallest part of that.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird

He`s a guy`s guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don`t imitate Sean Connery`s voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

i had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff.

I`m 25, I was a kid on the set. But everybody was really great

I usually think in terms of music.

I`m going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

I`m not giving up acting, I`m definitely not going to stop.

I`ve always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.

I`ve never had a day job. I`ve been very fortunate.

Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.

We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that`s really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.

What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

When what`s around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it`s kind of been what`s been there for me.

(About Mandy Moore) She`s a total doll and she`s very easygoing and willing to learn anything

In high school my nickname was `hopeless romantic`. If I was interested in a girl, I did a lot of lovey-dovey things like writing poems. I`m still like that deep down, but it`s hard to find someone who I can be that way with

(His silliest injury) While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn`t stop laughing for an hour.

Sexy, to me, has everything to do with how one speaks, how someone holds themselves, their smile, and how they treat people.

(on Character Eli) So having that background and doing three years of a divorced family, it wasn`t hard, it was more like therapy

in an interview) Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2

On Learning to Shoot for "League of Extrodanary Gentlemen")I basically went in a little early to Prague and on the days that we were shooting and I wasn`t involved, I learned how to use two six shooters and a rifle, a Winchester rifle.

(On Co-star Connery)He`s a guy`s guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don`t imitate Sean Connery`s voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

(On Being asked if he is more like Eli or Landon) I didn`t have abandonment issues but he`s a little bit more like me because Eli is a little bit more self-destructive and I`m not exactly that way

To me, the 90`s signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

(on his astro-attitude) Since I`m a Gemini, I`m kinda schizo, but I`m fun and outgoing. I`m always the one who`s trying to get everybody to feel OK. You know, `Do you need anything?` I`m a good host.

(When asked if he believes in love at first sight): I don`t know. It`s hard to explain, but the only time I`ve ever been in love, I felt it in less than a week and still feel like it was true even to this day. But then other times that I thought I was in love, I knew that I ended up not being in love, but was more in love with the idea of being in love.

(on how he became popular): This popular junior girl got a crush on me at the end of tenth grade. Then things changed. I ended up being in the popular group, but as soon as summer hit, I realized that it was the wrong crowd for me.

(On moving when he was younger) My sister and I were the only white people in school. It was the nicest group of kids I`ve ever run into

(On girls) The first thing I notice is their eyes and smile. I`m not a big make-up fan; I like them to be natural

I`m very cynical myself

Sexy, to me, doesn`t have anything to do with beautiful

I`m not giving up acting. I`m definitely not going to stop

I`m not that guy, who usually comes up to a person, I`m a little shy with stuff like that.