Dylan O'Brien Quotations

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

When a chick has a sense of humor, theres nothing more attractive.

I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from 'Friends.

I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that... ever.

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.

I feel like I’m good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I’ve always felt like that’s been natural for me.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

In real life I'd say we're more bromantic. It's like we're literally like a married couple kind of.

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much easier to get lost in it. That's why actors love doing theater so much, I guarantee you. It's refreshing to be able to do something where you don't have to be stopped every two seconds, and you can just play it out and it's done.

That's such a relevant thing, as an actor - committing and not being distracted by any kind of technical awareness, or whatever. You do have to block things out sometimes, and sometimes it's easier than others.

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

I'm a big root beer guy.

I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love.

Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always coming away from those things going like, 'I wonder how I kissed just now.' Because I have no idea! I'm just thinking about what's happening.

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Everyone was so good at what they were doing, and what they were bringing onto the table, that I was confident. I guess I was just trying to keep up, really, that was my hope at the end of the day; that I could do them justice and do the story [Maze Runner] justice and do Wes [Ball] justice.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.

I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

It's interesting to play that [ Thomas in The Maze Runner], actually. The audience gets to see the character discover who he is, things that he never even knew about himself. I love that Thomas starts out as the newbie, as the 'Greenie', and the audience kind of experiences that through his perspective. It's really cool to watch him discover these leadership qualities that he has, and the way you approach it... I guess, just honestly. As honest as you can, really.

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

I don’t think teens make mistakes when they fall in love. You experience what you experience and you take away what you can from it; it is very human.

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that.