Anton Yelchin quotes

Born
March 11, 1989, Leningrad, Soviet Union.

Died
June 19, 2016.

Occupation
Actor.

Anton Yelchin was a Russian-American actor. Yelchin began his acting career in the late 1990s with roles in television series and films such as ER and Along Came a Spider. He gained mainstream recognition for his role as Pavel Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek film series (2009-2016).

Movies
5 to 7 (2014)
Green Room (2015)

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.
– Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I’m in. I feel lucky to be working.
– Anton Yelchin

When you don’t understand the fashion world you’re just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
– Anton Yelchin

Maybe silence is something we’re uncomfortable with as a culture, I don’t know.
– Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
– Anton Yelchin

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
– Anton Yelchin

I love movies.
– Anton Yelchin

I don’t feel any connection to Russia.
– Anton Yelchin

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

One of my favorite vampire movies is ‘Nosferatu,’ which has a palpable sense of dread that’s a pre-war dread.
– Anton Yelchin

I have an aversion to remakes, which is ironic because I’m in two of them right now. When I went back and watched T3 recently, I thought we need to make a better movie. I can’t say I’m a fan.
– Anton Yelchin

I’m sure there are directors who don’t like to work with actors and don’t know how to be sensitive to actors.
– Anton Yelchin

I love Andy Warhol!
– Anton Yelchin

I’ve been lucky to play characters that are really broad.
– Anton Yelchin

Russia is very complicated. It is one of the most complicated histories. I could go on about this forever. It produces Dostoyevsky and Rachmaninoff and then it produces Stalins and Lenins. It is such a strange combination. I don’t know why that rant about Russia was necessary.
– Anton Yelchin

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.
– Anton Yelchin