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

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.

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.

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 have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.

What was it? What could it--His last thought was surprise.

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

I am younger each year at the first snow.

Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.