Alden Ehrenreich

“I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going to have had some seriously bad relationships.”

“When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.”

“I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, 'Have fun waiting tables,' so I figured maybe that's not such a great idea after all.”

“My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.”

“I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that.”

“It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.”

“I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.”

“Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters.”

“I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.”

“It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.”

“I listen to some really bad country.”

“When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.”

“I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.”

“An era that I specifically like is sort of late '50s, early '60s. I guess mid '50s, too. I like these types of films that deal with post-WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.”

“No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, years.”

“My mom wouldn't let me do child acting.”

“I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.”

“My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.”

“Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.”

“I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.”