Ansel Elgort quotes:

I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

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.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

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.

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.'

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

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?

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.

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.

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.

I like to buy girls shoes and jewelry. I buy stupidly expensive shoes. I got Louboutins for my mom and my girlfriend before. My mom was like, 'I can't wear these; they're too high.' I was like, 'Mom, you have to try them - they're so cool. They're red snakeskin!' She still wears them every so often, but she can't walk in them.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

I'm a total goof. When I'm being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.

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.

The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.

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.

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

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.

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.

I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.

Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.

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.

I can tap dance a little bit.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

I'd like to be Gandalf for a day - he's so wise, he's so powerful, and he's so caring. I love Gandalf. When they remake 'Lord of The Rings,' maybe I'll play it.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

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.

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.

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who's an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.

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.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

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

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.

So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

The club scene is terrible.

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.

James Dean was always a tortured soul.

I'm just such a good kisser.

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.

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.

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.

I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.

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.

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.

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?

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.

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.

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.

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

If I messed up at the Oscars, I wouldn't be invited back.

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

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.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

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.

We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

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,

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

Iâ??ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career Iâ??d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. 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,

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

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.

Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I think my voice would be great as a protestor but also it would be, and has been, very powerful for charity.

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.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

As much as politicians, any politicians, Democrat or Republican, are saying they're trying to help the schools, it's hard because our country is in debt. I would like to do something for the inner-city schools because that's our future, and education is very important in helping our country continue to progress and not regress.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it brought attention to a cause that she cared very much about. She was in high spirits and knew that was a possibility when she was protesting. The people who arrested her, if they were trying to prove a point of not to protest, they only helped the cause.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.

I'm a big fan of Shake Shack.