My whole thing is, if you love this person as much as you say you do and you spent this much time together, you owe it to that person to have a conversation with them about opening up the relationship one way or another before you go and you act on it.

Nico Tortorella

I am driven by love and I have been in love with a handful of different people, men and women. It's like, if you go to a bookstore and you know exactly what kind of book you want, you have to look it up in the system because it's in a specific section of the bookstore. I fit into a handful of sections in the bookstore.

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men book people

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

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sleeves living-my-life heart

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

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college art school

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

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speak long looks

I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle.

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lifestyle

Everybody knows what love is in one way or another, and everybody has an answer of what love means to them.

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answers love-is mean

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

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monogamy emotional believe

I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.

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different energy people

I am not ruled by sex. I never have been.

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has-beens sex

I am the least jealous person I have ever met.

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mets jealous persons

I feel like the last tattoo you got is usually your favorite.

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tattoo lasts feels

My mom actually took me to get my first tattoo when I was 15. She highly regrets that choice now, as I have a lot more.

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tattoo regret mom

I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines.

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writing boys thinking

Movies are thankfully about real people nowadays, and I don't necessarily always look like a real person.

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real people looks

I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.

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cameras writing people

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

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real people thinking

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

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who-i-am humanity trying

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking.

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consistency different reading

I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.

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actors want directors

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

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twenties taken ifs