Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor, model and director. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in The CW's supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 December 1978
CityCovington, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Ian Somerhalder quotes about
compassion people progress
We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion
presidential remember print
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.
adventure passion vampire
You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger.
world looks actors
Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.
feelings impossible realizing
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.
people world groups
The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
wise sexy powerful
We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.
laughter medicine laughter-is-the-best-medicine
Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second
smart grandmother house
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.
coffee kids community
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
jobs thinking actors
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.
teacher sitting may
Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.
mean commitment guarantees-in-life
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.
growth infinite
In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.