Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Dylan O'Brien - Page 2

It's really easy sometimes to get comfortable on a set and get into the groove and think it's all make-believe so nothing bad can happen.

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really comfortable with a person.

We were walking through Petco Park after a signing, and this girl plowed through security and grabbed onto my neck and started pulling. Her grip was so impressively strong that this huge security guard was struggling to get her off of me. I was like, 'Whoa. That's kind of crazy.'

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

It's kind of too generic, a male lead.

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.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

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

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.

I can't say enough about 'The First Time.' It was such an awesome experience. Jon Kasdan, the writer/director, was great. He's such a talented guy who's really, truly special.

I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.

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

As an actor, you blindly put your trust in experts - and if they tell you something's safe, you don't fully vet it yourself. If you're young and inexperienced, that's just what you're taught to do.

If you have a good thing going behind the scenes, you'll have a good thing going on-screen.

I still remember when I was 18 and my life was completely different. I was in my apartment, and I got the call that I got Stiles for this pilot. I was just jumping around with my roommates, freaking out. It's crazy to think about.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.