Quotes from Dylan O'Brien

I think there's something to be said about pacing yourself.

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

I always assume that a chick is not into me. So it's never natural for me to be like, 'Check out that girl in the corner. She's waiting for me to come up to her. I'm gonna to work my six-step process...'

If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

I've always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

To me, the 'Maze Runner' fans have been so supportive of everything I have done.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project; you don't get the criticisms you would get with other projects.

I can't say enough about 'The First Time.' It was such an awesome experience. Jon Kasdan, the writer/director, was great. He's such a talented guy who's really, truly special.

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don't be afraid of that.

If I did want to get a girl's attention, it would just be in some way where I would just start talking to her. It would have to feel organic. It's too weird otherwise.

I'll always be reading a good book. I don't have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of get hooked on, reading genre books or anything like that. It's just really anything anyone kind of recommends or is going around or I hear is good.

I always whip up chicken cutlets or something. Or I make chicken parm and pasta, or something like that.

Just going out and seeing friends, not being cooped up in my house because I don't want to get my picture taken or anything like that - I've tried to let go of that stuff a bit, accept that it's going to happen to me, and not let it prevent me from doing anything I want to do, which I have in the past.

I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.

In real life I'd say we're more bromantic. It's like we're literally like a married couple kind of.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

We were walking through Petco Park after a signing, and this girl plowed through security and grabbed onto my neck and started pulling. Her grip was so impressively strong that this huge security guard was struggling to get her off of me. I was like, 'Whoa. That's kind of crazy.'

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.