Ian somerhalder quotes

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

Sleeping with a witch would probably be pretty interesting. I hear that, and I understand that.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

I'm not a negative person.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.

I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.

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

If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

I learned that Canadians are furious because Canada is exporting water to the United States. Their lakes are shrinking because they're selling water to the U.S. We water our golf courses and every ice cream shop and every coffee shop in the country because the health inspector has said you have to have a steady stream of water cleaning your spoons that you're frothing milk with and their ice cream scoopers. Are you kidding me? We're wasting all this water while we're sucking it from Canada and they're watching their lakes shrink?

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

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

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.

So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.

We all love guarantees in life.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts - it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the kind of world you wish to see... When you assume this as a way of being, your choices become easier. Using a reusable water bottle, recycling and making conscious daily consumer choices are just a few of the ways our incredible cast is green.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

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

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

I grew up as a country boy.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.

Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.

Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

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.

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

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

All the women in my life have really made my life what it is, and I feel so fortunate, so whole because of them.

Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy?

Together, we can bring our planet's heartbeat back.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Oil is dead, on its way to extinction.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

Ideas need collective thought.

The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.

We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

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.

Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.

Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

I love the media, I live with the media.

You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if you use the analogy of a convoy of vehicles going to help a distress situation: they have all the resources needed (food, medicine, everything they need), and as the convoy is traveling, there's a rockslide. You can't get through the road. What good does any of that stuff do when you can't get it to where it needs to go?

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.

No one knows what women want!

My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for that foresight. She's brilliant, kind, and so loving as a mother. I was told a million times in a day that she loved me.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

If you want change, it has to be generational.

We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.

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

We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking. Let your government know you will not tolerate a technology that not only poisons your family but our creature family at large; let them know you want sustainable power and all the jobs that will come with that new growth.

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.

I mean it’s never a problem making out with Nina Dobrev, I mean that’s always really cool!

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'

I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

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.

If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic.

What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive

Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.

Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second

Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have.

The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. When things pile sky-high on top of each other, I try to take a moment to: breathe, smile, repeat. This mantra helps me align to the reality outside of the superfluous noise.

Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.

Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

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

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

Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards, and donating. Regardless of what or how you share with ISF, we recognize that we don't have all the answers, and that solutions lie not in commonality but in diversity. Welcoming a broad range of thinkers, creators, and doers is what makes this organization thrive.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

If we recognize the interconnectedness of the changes our planet needs, we become true solutionaries and our united power is unparalleled.

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

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.

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.

Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many species to the brink of extinction...The American people that I interact with through my IS Foundation work do not want to allow this to happen; they do not want to let these species go without a fight; and they see the way in which nature provides for people around the world.

I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND

We the people are the change makers.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

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

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

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.