Ian Somerhalder

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

There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

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.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

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

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

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.

I'm a good driver.

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.

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.

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