Ian Somerhalder Quotes

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

My intention is to do more films.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I definitely want to do other things outside of acting like producing, directing.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

I want to write, act, and direct!

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.