Shane West quotes:

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.

Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.

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.

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

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

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.

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

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

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

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

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

I usually think in terms of music

If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

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

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.