When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

I don't mind only kissing Nina Dobrev

With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before.

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!

As everybody knows, chicks dig the vampires.

I don't ship anyone. I really don't. I'm not a shipper, but I'm all for men duking it out for a chick.

That love has to always exist.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.

If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.