Quotes by Anton Yelchin

About Anton Yelchin:

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis (both 2001). Yelchin later appeared on the television series Huff and starred in the films House of D (2005), Alpha Dog (2007), Star Trek (2009) and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Terminator Salvation (2009), Charlie Bartlett (2007) The Smurfs (2011) and its sequel The Smurfs 2, Fright Night (2011), Like Crazy (2011) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). Yelchin's role as Jacob Clarke in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken was significant in furthering his career as a child actor.
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In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop ...

Anton Yelchin

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

Anton Yelchin

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

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My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

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I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

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There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

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Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

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If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

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I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

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I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

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My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends....

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One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

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I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

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I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

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I don't feel any connection to Russia.

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I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

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Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

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Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnton Yelchin
  • DescriptionAmerican film and television actor
  • BornMarch 11, 1989
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsBoston Society Of Film Critics Award For Best Cast; Young Artist Award For Best Leading Young Actor In A Feature Film