Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. – Emile Hirsch
On Into The Wild I spent months risking my life and on Speed Racer I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. – Emile Hirsch
The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. – Emile Hirsch
Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I dont know. – Emile Hirsch
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre