I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.
Ansel Elgort
I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.
I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.
The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.
The club scene is terrible.
Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.
I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.
I like romanticizing romance.
Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.
'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.
You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.
'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.
I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.
I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.
I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.
When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?
I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.
LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.
I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.
Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.
All I want to do is work.
I just think a lot of people don't give credit to EDM producers or DJs. People think they're just button pushers and just get on stage and don't really perform.
I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.
I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?
I'd like to be Gandalf for a day - he's so wise, he's so powerful, and he's so caring. I love Gandalf. When they remake 'Lord of The Rings,' maybe I'll play it.
Girls love it when you have some weird nerdy thing in your room. It makes you look less threatening, even though I'm, like, very threatening. I'm the most threatening guy ever.
I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.
So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.
I love to cry. It's great.
What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'
Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.
I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
My style is clubby and groovy - you can jump to it, but you don't just have to just jump to it. It's not just really bass-heavy and hurts your ears; you move with it, and it sounds kind of tribal.
With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.
Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.
I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.
Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.
When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'
