Ian Somerhalder famous quotes

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Winning #Get Better

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Smart #Grandmother #House

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Aim #Direct

We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Thinking #Laughing #Degrees

I grew up as a country boy.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Country #Boys #Grew Up

If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Love You #If You Love Someone

No one knows what women want!
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Want #Women Want

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Reading #Pages #Transformation

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Impossible #Imagine #Planets

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Animal #Demonstration #Cruelty

I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Hurt #Real #Men

Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Smart #Men #Games

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.
-- Ian Somerhalder

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Rivers #Tree #Environment

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Jobs #Thinking #Actors

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.
-- Ian Somerhalder

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Girl #Writing #Feet

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Coffee #Kids #Community

Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the kind of world you wish to see. When you assume this as a way of being, your choices become easier. Using a reusable water bottle, recycling and making conscious daily consumer choices are just a few…
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Water #Voting #Choices

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Would Be #Actors #Chef

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Together #Action #Individual

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Girl #Animal #Care

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Thinking #Trying #Too Much

I'm not a negative person.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Negative #Persons

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#People #Twenties #Roaring

I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Tired #Enjoy #Shows

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Planets

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Energy #Would Be #Alternatives

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Practice #Green #Time And Money

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Struggle #Fall #Love Is

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Crazy #World

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Stories #Want #Way

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Positive #Moving #Fighting

Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many species to the brink of extinction...The American people that I interact with through my IS Foundation work do not want to allow this to happen; they do not want to let these species go without a fight; and they see the way in which nature provides for people around the world.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Fighting #People #Environmental

I mean it’s never a problem making out with Nina Dobrev, I mean that’s always really cool!
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Mean #Problem #Really Cool

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Compassion #People #Progress

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Morning #Quality #Evening

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

#New Orleans #Play #Vampire

You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Passion #Adventure #Want

The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#People #Groups #World

Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Laughter #Medicine #Laughter Is The Best Medicine

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Guy #Want #Skinny

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Louisiana #Coast

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Grandchildren #Way #Louisiana

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Issues #Doubt #Matter

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Waste #Film

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#People #Appreciate #Support

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Emotional #Different #Who You Are

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Political #Agendas #Actors

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Brain #Littles #Mosquitoes

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Friends #True Friend #Two

There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Energy #Vortex #World

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Dark #Vampire #Anomalies

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Heart #Men #Want

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Running #Office #Sides

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Ocean #America #Important

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Tv Shows #Interesting #Tvs

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Needs #Stories #Love Story

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Years #Want #Clear

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Blood #Mind #Doe

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Actors #Backlash #Models

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Cameras

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Mean #Energy #Armageddon

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Fun #Get Away #Poke

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Mean #Done #Television

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Acting #Enough Time #Directors

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Rivers #Differences #Tree

I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Painful #Overrated #Pointless

Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Hurt #Real #Men

You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#People

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Cat #Three #Rescue

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Growing #Studs #Growing Old

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Thinking #Differences #Creative

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Jobs #Eye #Doe

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Believe #Heart #Mind