Ed Westwick

“I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.”

“I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.”

“I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.”

“I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.”

“I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.”

“Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.”

“I'm just happy to be doing a job that I love.”

“Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.”

“I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.”

“I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.”

“I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.”

“I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.”

“I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.”

“To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.”

“I've got a clear line between work and real life.”

“I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.”

“This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.”

“It's always good to be around nice-looking people.”

“I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.”

“I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.”