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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  

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• You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

  

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• There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

  

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• Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

  

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• People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

  

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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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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