Ian Somerhalder Quotes

• 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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• I’m not a negative person.

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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 from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

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

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  Tags in Humane

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

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

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

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• I grew up as a country boy.

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

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• 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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  Tags in Mind, Ever, Support, Appreciate

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

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  Tags in Time, Point, Act

• Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

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  Tags in Story, Needs, Catalyst

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn’t have the appeal that they do now.

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  Tags in Before, Dark, Aesthetically

• As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you’re going to screw it up and you’re never going to work again.

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  Tags in Actor

• Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

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  Tags in Acting, Creative

• A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.

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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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