Ian Harding

“I understand what I look like, and I understand the strengths I have, which is basic, generic white guy.”

“I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It's fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth.”

“I love voiceovers. You get to show up for half a day and pay your mortgage. How great is that?”

“The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.”

“I think Ralph Fiennes has had a really wonderful career; there's something sort of classic about him. He does a bunch of different projects, but he approaches the work from a very sort of artful way.”

“If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.”

“If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.”

“It's really good to be a working actor.”

“As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession or I'd want to have this experience in life. I realized it's not because I actually wanted to be a Coast Guard helicopter rescue pilot or something like that - I just enjoyed the idea of playing it.”

“My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.”

“'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.”

“If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'”

“My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.”

“My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.”

“English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.”

“I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'”

“There's so much that I want to see and do, and being megafamous is not on my to-do list.”

“I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.”

“It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.”

“It's so ridiculous how you just get a call one day and go on an audition that can easily change your life for the next several years.”