Top 78 Dylan O’Brien Quotes December 20, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “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.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.”― Dylan O’Brien“I have a personality type, but it’s not like I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, short and brunette. That’s what I like. All the time.’”― Dylan O’Brien“If you’re proud of something, and if you’re proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that’s what you have to focus on.”― Dylan O’Brien“You have to latch onto somebody while you’re working.”― Dylan O’Brien“You don’t disrupt genius at work.”― Dylan O’Brien“The thing I like a lot about acting is I’ll never learn enough. I’ll never know it inside and out.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I just happened to step into acting. And now I can’t imagine myself doing anything else.”― Dylan O’Brien“Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from ‘Friends.’”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.”― Dylan O’Brien“I always assume that a chick is not into me. So it’s never natural for me to be like, ‘Check out that girl in the corner. She’s waiting for me to come up to her. I’m gonna to work my six-step process…’”― Dylan O’Brien“In ‘Teen Wolf,’ I don’t really have any stunts. And if I do, it’s like Stiles falls on the ground or something like that.”― Dylan O’Brien“It’s always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you’re acting.”― Dylan O’Brien“I think there’s something to be said about pacing yourself.”― Dylan O’Brien“I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn’t that funny?”― Dylan O’Brien“It’s a generational thing. It’d be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.”― Dylan O’Brien“When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I’ve just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”― Dylan O’Brien“The physical part was one thing. Whatever – I broke my face; that’ll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don’t know how to experience stuff like that. You don’t have any control over it, either. It’s just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.”― Dylan O’Brien“To me, the ‘Maze Runner’ fans have been so supportive of everything I have done.”― Dylan O’Brien“I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I don’t really give much thought to the roles that I’d ideally love to play.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“Yeah, I’ve only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m a big root beer guy.”― Dylan O’Brien“When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive.”― Dylan O’Brien“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!”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don’t get what that’s about.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I love baseball – ‘Moneyball’ was my favorite book when I was 13.”― Dylan O’Brien“It’s kind of too generic, a male lead.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m nervous and awkward.”― Dylan O’Brien“Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He’s so confident and extroverted, and I’m much more restrained and internal.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“Honestly, man, I’m not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’ve always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m still on the ground, so I just do my thing.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’ll always be reading a good book. I don’t have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of get hooked on, reading genre books or anything like that. It’s just really anything anyone kind of recommends or is going around or I hear is good.”― Dylan O’Brien“Michael’s great. He’s everything you’d want Michael Keaton to be.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“’Teen Wolf’ ending is, like, huge. I know no acting without the show, basically.”― Dylan O’Brien“If I did want to get a girl’s attention, it would just be in some way where I would just start talking to her. It would have to feel organic. It’s too weird otherwise.”― Dylan O’Brien“You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.”― Dylan O’Brien“If you have a good thing going behind the scenes, you’ll have a good thing going on-screen.”― Dylan O’Brien“I always whip up chicken cutlets or something. Or I make chicken parm and pasta, or something like that.”― Dylan O’Brien“It’s honestly just pressure that I put on myself when I’m working. It’s just how I operate.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’ve never looked at myself as this pop candy type.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“My first semester of college, I’m going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.”― Dylan O’Brien“Sometimes I’d literally show up at the gym having a panic attack, and my trainer would be like, ‘All right, let’s just go get breakfast.’ I can’t give enough credit to him… he was really there for me, and not just like a trainer where it’s like, ‘Well, come on, man, I gotta pump you up.’ He cared more about my mind and the state that I was in.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m excited to see what comes my way, see what I’m interested in next, and just see what happens.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.”― Dylan O’Brien“I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.”― Dylan O’Brien“I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.”― Dylan O’Brien“I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.”― Dylan O’Brien“Just going out and seeing friends, not being cooped up in my house because I don’t want to get my picture taken or anything like that – I’ve tried to let go of that stuff a bit, accept that it’s going to happen to me, and not let it prevent me from doing anything I want to do, which I have in the past.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’ve always wanted to do action movies.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’m a huge ‘Indiana Jones’ fan.”― Dylan O’Brien“I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.”― Dylan O’Brien“I’ll never be, at least in my mind, as cool as Jason Bourne.”― Dylan O’Brien“The ‘Maze Runner’ family, we all just really genuinely love each other.”― Dylan O’Brien“When I was 17, I was about 5’6”.”― Dylan O’Brien“I can run pretty quick.”― Dylan O’Brien“I haven’t worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.”― Dylan O’Brien“Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.”― Dylan O’Brien“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.’”― Dylan O’Brien“It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project; you don’t get the criticisms you would get with other projects.”― Dylan O’Brien“There’s just something awesome about going all-out for 20 seconds and then stopping and getting to guzzle Pedialyte.”― Dylan O’Brien
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