I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.

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.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.

I think my voice would be great as a protestor but also it would be, and has been, very powerful for charity.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who's an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.

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'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.

My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

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.

From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'

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.

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.

I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.

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.

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.

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 like to go on really nice dates. I've made some money, but I don't spend it on anything besides my rent. But I go to nice dinners. And I like to go with a girl.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music.

I love when a girl is like, 'I can't hang out. I have to go to class.' And I go pick her up, and she's all sweaty in a leotard with her hair in a bun. That's the hottest thing ever.

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 don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

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.

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.

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?

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

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