Quotes from Ian Somerhalder

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of 'power' over other species.

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

I grew up as a country boy.

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

All the women in my life have really made my life what it is, and I feel so fortunate, so whole because of them.

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.