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I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

Ansel Elgort

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Ansel Elgort
Age: 30
Born: 1994
Born: March 14
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It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.
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I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
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When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.
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I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.
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Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.
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We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.
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I'm a big fan of Shake Shack.
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Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.
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I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
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Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?
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I think my voice would be great as a protestor but also it would be, and has been, very powerful for charity.
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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.
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Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.
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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.
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I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
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