Ian Somerhalder Quotes

• I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don’t mind watching me on screen… I just don’t ever want to jeopardize that.

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• Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

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  Tags in Story, Needs, Catalyst

• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

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  Tags in Time, Point, Act

• I don’t want to see blood spewing out but I don’t mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

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  Tags in Mind, Blood, Controlled

• I grew up as a country boy.

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• I don’t ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

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• I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That’s what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values… and to be part of that is awesome.

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  Tags in Amazing, Cool, Better

• I’m from New Orleans. There’s a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

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  Tags in Play, Wanted, Mythology

• I’m from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

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• I’m never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It’s going to take both of them.

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  Tags in Speak, Able

• I’m not a negative person.

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  Tags in Person

• I’ve never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

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  Tags in Change, Keep, Continually

• I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

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  Tags in Working, Old, Since

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

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  Topics in Society, Work

  Tags in Humane

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

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  Tags in Actor, Model

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.

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  Tags in Kids, Meeting

• Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

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  Tags in Time, Really

• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

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  Tags in Enjoy, Able, Great

• Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

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  Tags in Important, Oceans, Security

Ian Somerhalder (52)

Birth:	8th December, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Model

About

Ian Joseph Somerhalder was born in Covington, Louisiana, USA. He is an American actor and model. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in The CW's supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries. His role in several films include: Life as a House, The Rules of Attraction, Pulse, Wake, The Tournament, How to Make Love to a Woman, and The Anomaly. His role in television include: Young Americans(TV series), Smallville(TV series), Marco Polo(TV film), Tell Me You Love Me(TV series), and Lost City Raiders(TV film). He has received several Teen Choice Award's and a People's Choice Award for his participation on the TV series The Vampire Diaries.

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