Ian Somerhalder Quotes
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
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I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
