Ansel Elgort Quotes

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

I think my voice would be great as a protestor but also it would be, and has been, very powerful for charity.

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

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

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

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I'm a big fan of Shake Shack.

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.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

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

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

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

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

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

I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

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 had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.

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.

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.