Top 100 Quotes About Ansel Elgort
#1. 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.
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#2. To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.
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#3. 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.
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#4. With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.
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#7. I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.
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#8. 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.
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#9. If I messed up at the Oscars, I wouldn't be invited back.
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#10. Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?
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#11. 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.
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#12. It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.
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#13. 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.
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#14. When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.
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#20. Sometimes I'll write a tweet that I'll just be like, 'Why do I have to say this to all of these people?' It's like writing a Facebook status: it's the same. I view tweeting as like writing a Facebook status. Remember when we used to write statuses?
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#21. I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.
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#22. 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.
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#23. When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
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#24. I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.
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#25. I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.
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#26. I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.
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#27. 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.
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#28. The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.
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#29. 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?
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#30. This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.
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#33. Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.
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#34. I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.
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#37. 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.
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#39. I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.
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#40. I would like to do more independent films.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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,
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#44. 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?
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#45. Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.
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#47. My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.
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#50. I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
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#51. You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.
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#52. There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.
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#53. 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.
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#54. The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.
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#55. I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.
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#56. I just think a lot of people don't give credit to EDM producers or DJs. People think they're just button pushers and just get on stage and don't really perform.
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#57. So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.
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#58. I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
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#59. 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.'
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#60. I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
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#62. My style is clubby and groovy - you can jump to it, but you don't just have to just jump to it. It's not just really bass-heavy and hurts your ears; you move with it, and it sounds kind of tribal.
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#63. 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.
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#64. My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
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#65. I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
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#67. I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.
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#69. I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.
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#70. I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
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#71. When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.
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#72. My dad said to always do what I loved and not worry about the money or anything, because if I do what I love, then the money will come.
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#73. In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
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#74. 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.
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#75. The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.
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#76. Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.
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#77. I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.
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#78. Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.
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#79. I like to go on really nice dates. I've made some money, but I don't spend it on anything besides my rent. But I go to nice dinners. And I like to go with a girl.
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#80. I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.
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#81. I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.
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#85. I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.
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#86. I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.
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#87. When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.
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#88. I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.
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#89. 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.
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#90. I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.
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#91. I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.
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#92. I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.
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#93. I was never not in a show from ages 11 until 18. It was a great creative atmosphere but also a professional kind of atmosphere. When I finally went into the professional world, I felt ready. I was prepared for work.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.
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#96. 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
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#97. I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.
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#98. 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.
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#99. You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
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#100. 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.
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