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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.

Ansel Elgort

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Ansel Elgort
Age: 30
Born: 1994
Born: March 14
Actor
Disc Jockey
Film Actor
Model
Manhattan borough
New York City
Actor
Actors
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I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.
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Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.
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As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
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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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As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.
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Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.
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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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Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with music. When I'm writing a song or I'm in the studio, those memories, that's epic.
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Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
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We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.
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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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Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?
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I was never not in a show from ages 11 until 18. It was a great creative atmosphere but also a professional kind of atmosphere. When I finally went into the professional world, I felt ready. I was prepared for work.
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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 think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.
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I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.
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I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.
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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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I'm a big fan of Shake Shack.
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