Top 60 Ansel Elgort Quotes

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn’t get the smile off my face.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

I’m a total goof. When I’m being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.

I love when a girl is like, ‘I can’t hang out. I have to go to class.’ And I go pick her up, and she‘s all sweaty in a leotard with her hair in a bun. That’s the hottest thing ever.

Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don’t want to be there anymore.

There are big parts of my life that I don’t share. I don’t share myself eating dinner with my family. I don’t talk about who I’m dating. That’s private; that’s me.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that – that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

What’s interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I’m good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, ‘Oh, wow!’

The club scene is terrible.

I’m a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in ‘The Fighter.’ That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.

I don’t believe in spending money lavishly, now that I’m making money.

The image of myself that I give on social media isn’t actually who I am; it’s not 100 percent me, obviously.

I’m not that big of a reader, to be honest.

Some nightlife places, people aren’t there for the music, and it’s depressing. I’m not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I’ll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music.

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we’re purebred New Yorkers.

Parents can’t monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.

I love to cry. It’s great.

I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It’s like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It’s really weird, right?

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

‘East of Eden‘ is an important story for me. It’s about a kid that’s misunderstood and feels like he’s not loved by his father. It’s a very father-son kind of story, and it’s not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it’s very relatable.

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn’t make it less meaningful. They’re both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we’re given.

LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.

My fans are going to be there for me.

When you’re crafting a character, it’s good to have a lot of influences.

I like romanticizing romance.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

I don’t want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

To be honest, I don’t mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren’t for everyone.

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I’m a fanboy with music.

My thing with fans is, it’s always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures – you shouldn’t take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?

I’ll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that – not girlfriends, friends, family.

My dad’s a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I think it’s important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I’m a little bit scattered, but it’s so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I don’t do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

Girls love it when you have some weird nerdy thing in your room. It makes you look less threatening, even though I’m, like, very threatening. I’m the most threatening guy ever.

I’m not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

It’s important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.

I go to dinner with my friends, and we’re like, ‘Let’s put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other‘s company.’

I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it’s important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn’t come easy.

I just make whatever music I want. It’s my obsession, and it’s very fulfilling.

You know what I’m realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I’m doing there. I’ve heard people say, ‘I hate Pittsburgh,’ and I’m like, ‘I love Pittsburgh so much!’ I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

I don’t want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of ‘GQ’ for being an actor.

I’m starting to get a following on Twitter. That’s a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you’re so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

I think my parents raised me well. And I’m pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

In fifth grade, I did ‘Oklahoma!,’ but I didn’t get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, ‘The sixth-grader has to get the lead.’ I was really discouraged.

All I want to do is work.