Quotes from Dylan O'Brien

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

I have a personality type, but it's not like I'm like, 'Oh yeah, short and brunette. That's what I like. All the time.'

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Sometimes I'd literally show up at the gym having a panic attack, and my trainer would be like, 'All right, let's just go get breakfast.' I can't give enough credit to him... he was really there for me, and not just like a trainer where it's like, 'Well, come on, man, I gotta pump you up.' He cared more about my mind and the state that I was in.

It's a generational thing. It'd be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.

I'll never be, at least in my mind, as cool as Jason Bourne.

I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I've just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that.

The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.

I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel.

My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

Michael's great. He's everything you'd want Michael Keaton to be.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.

I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

I'm nervous and awkward.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.