Ian Somerhalder Quotes

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.

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

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

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

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

I love the media, I live with the media.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Sleeping with a witch would probably be pretty interesting. I hear that, and I understand that.

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

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.

I'm not a negative person.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

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.

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.

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.

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.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.

Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

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

Ideas need collective thought.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.

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

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.

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

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

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.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

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

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

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

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

We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

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

If we recognize the interconnectedness of the changes our planet needs, we become true solutionaries and our united power is unparalleled.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

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

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

Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive.