Ansel Elgort Quotes

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

I'm an actor, and the thing about an actor is that if you're fortunate enough and you have the ability, is you can access multiple parts of yourself. I want to grow and see how far can I stretch.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.