Top 90 Ian Somerhalder Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.”

— Ian Somerhalder

52. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

53. “I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can’t hide anything from them.”

— Ian Somerhalder

54. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

56. “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?”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

60. “The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I’m not immune to waste in the business.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

62. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

63. “If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.”

— Ian Somerhalder

64. “The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.”

— Ian Somerhalder

65. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

66. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

68. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

70. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

71. “Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.”

— Ian Somerhalder

72. “It’s not who you know, it’s who you don’t know.”

— Ian Somerhalder

73. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

74. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

76. “I’m from the gulf coast of Louisiana.”

— Ian Somerhalder

77. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

79. “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?”

— Ian Somerhalder

80. “It’s really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.”

— Ian Somerhalder

81. “If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they’re not going to change, they’re not going to stop.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

83. “More than ever, it’s very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us – our youth.”

— Ian Somerhalder

84. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

85. “Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

87. “You spend enough time on set as an actor and it’s great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They’re able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can’t get.”

— Ian Somerhalder

88. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

91. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

93. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

94. “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.”

— Ian Somerhalder

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

— Ian Somerhalder

96. “I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.”

— Ian Somerhalder