Casper Van Dien Quotes

• "And I certainly intend to direct someday."
• "And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing."
• "As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote."
• "Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."
• "But I was a poet before I was an actor."
• "But I'm always working and traveling."
• "But when I don'y have to go out into the club and party scene when I don't have too."
• "Every firstborn male in my family is named Casper."
• "Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!"
• "Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek."
• "I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet."
• "I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately."
• "I am a very physical actor though."
• "I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day."
• "I did the whole sequel with a broken finger. And the two night horse sequence too. My finger is two sizes bigger now."
• "I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how."
• "I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand."
• "I don't drink. I don't do drugs."
• "I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes."
• "I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap."
• "I get beat up on every project."
• "I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII."
• "I have two kids. We read stories, go to the zoo, go on walks, play sports, cook dinner. We like to sit around and have a good time."
• "I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things."
• "I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done."
• "I love abs. I like having them - but the most important part of abs is diet."
• "I only sleep four hours a day - ever since I was 16. I like to do things!"
• "I pick and chose every role."
• "I play a huge variety of roles."
• "I prefer film because I'm a film fan."
• "I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball."
• "I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe."
• "I was before the film a huge Depp fan. I became an even bigger one making the film."
• "I was one of those kids who didn't have to study hard to get an A, but if I didn't like the teacher, I just wouldn't show up."
• "I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain."
• "I'd like to continue to act and also produce."
• "I've already bought a script - a love story - that I plan to produce."
• "I've always loved writing."
• "In Styarship Troopers I cracked two ribs and chipped two teeth."
• "In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees."
• "It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker."
• "James DEan and Tarzan are words apart."
• "Johnny Depp is a great actor."
• "Most of my friends are non-stars, but I have a couple of friends in the business."
• "No, I consider myself computer illiterate."
• "No, I'm kind of an exhibitionist, anyway."
• "Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman."
• "Someday I'd like to use the weath of talent I've met in films. It would be exciting to direct!"
• "The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one."
• "Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him."
• "Val Kilmer does a great job in his films. Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger are great. Robert Redford and Paul Newman are amazing."
• "We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again."
• "We've also done a lot of other shows - a lot of us did Doogie Howser, a lot of us did Dr. Quinn. I think it has to do with Patrick Muldoon."
• "When I do a film I go out and promote it."
• "When I was 7 I saw Westside Story and I wanted to be the guy kissing Natalie Wood."
• "I'm not into the froufrou kind of stuff. I've had my fair share of partying and being out there and doing all that crazy stuff and it was fun and I had a blast and I'm over that."