I'm a total goof. When I'm being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.
— Ansel Elgort
I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.
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 don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
I'm just such a good kisser.
My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.
So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.
I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
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.
I like strong women. Physical women.
Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.
I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.
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 want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.
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.
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.
To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.
James Dean was always a tortured soul.
I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.
The club scene is terrible.
I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.
I like romanticizing romance.
My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.
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.'
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 love to cry. It's great.
You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.
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.
Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.
I think everyone should have social media - all young people, at least.
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.
Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.
All I want to do is work.
I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.
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.
I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.
I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.
I can tap dance a little bit.
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.
The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.
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.
Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.
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.
Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.
If I messed up at the Oscars, I wouldn't be invited back.
Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.
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.
My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.
