Quotes By Ian Somerhalder

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

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.

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.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

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

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.

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

No one knows what women want!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

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

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

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.

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

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

It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

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

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.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.