"I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years"
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The subtext is quietly classed and local. “It’s what all my friends did” positions surfing less as a lone-wolf passion than a community default, the kind of coastal culture where belonging is earned by showing up daily. That matters because celebrity biographies often overemphasize individual destiny; Hemsworth instead foregrounds environment and peer gravity. The line reads like an attempt to keep his origin story unglamorous: not born to be a star, born into a routine.
Then there’s the slyly disarming detail: “I even had it as a subject in school.” It’s a flex, but an Australian one - a reminder that certain places build sport into daily life and legitimize what other systems would dismiss as a hobby. Contextually, it functions as authenticity insurance. In a media ecosystem that treats actors as manufactured, he’s staking a claim to a pre-Hollywood self defined by saltwater, repetition, and a future he once thought was permanent. The quiet ache is in the verb tense: “wanted.”
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hemsworth, Liam. (2026, January 15). I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-surfed-competitively-from-age-13-to-18-every-172473/
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Hemsworth, Liam. "I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-surfed-competitively-from-age-13-to-18-every-172473/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-surfed-competitively-from-age-13-to-18-every-172473/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





