- Shane celebrated his 29th birthday party at Ritual, a trendy Hollywood night club.
- Shane's guilty pleasure is listening to The Goo Goo Dolls.
- His favorite TV Show is the X-Files.
- Shane has a tattoo on his chest saying Satori, wich means enlightenment.
- Shane won The Young Hollywood Award in 2002 for Male Superstar of Tomorrow.
- Shane won a Teen Choice award for A Walk To Remember for Film Choice Chemistry, shared with actress/singer Mandy Moore.
- Shane sang on Once and Again, as Eli in episode 3 of Season 2, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down".
- In 2003 Shane wrote the song "Billy Jean is MIA" for Bringing Down the House.
- In 1998, Shane made his Los Angeles stage debut, starring as Angel in the Mark Taper Forum production of The Cider House Rules.
- Shane almost re-teamed with A Walk to Remember costar Mandy Moore on the film Win A Date With Tad Hamilton. Both West and Moore we're up for the two romantic leads, but the studio didn't like the idea of pairing the duo again so soon.
- Shane says that if he could choose one superpower, it would be the power of intangibility - the ability to move through things like walls.
- Shane is Roman Catholic.
- One of Shane's favorite alcoholic beverages is Jack Daniels Whiskey mixed with Coca-Cola.
- Shane rang in his 27th birthday at the popular L.A. hot spot, The Sunset Room.
- Shane's band, Average Jo, was recently renamed "Jonny Was".
- Shane had a small appearance in the movie Ocean's Eleven. He is in a scene playing poker at the beginning of the movie.
- Shane is filming a pilot for the new Fox series, Supreme Courtships, in which he plays a character named Tony.
- Shane stars with J.P.Manoux in both ER and What We Do Is Secret.
- Shane is currently dating C.C. Sheffield, the lead singer for Le Rev.
- Shane will star as the late Germs lead singer, Darby Crash, in What We Do is Secret. Members of the band were so impressed with his performance that they reformed the band with Shane as their new lead singer.
- Shane's favorite color is green.
- Shane's biggest inspiration is Bill Paxton.
- Shane's favorite subject in school was history.
- Shane's favorite band is The Clash.
- Shane's favorite actress is Angelina Jolie.
- Shane's biggest fears are failure and sharks.
- Shane's favorite movie is Scarface.
- Shane's most prized posession is his History Of Punk book signed by Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols.
- People think of Shane as the "bad" boy, but deep down, his friends say he is really, very nice.
- Shane once had a huge crush on actress Courtney Cox-Arquette. He even forced his dad to take him to see Masters Of The Universe just so he could see her.
- Shane's first kiss was in the fourth grade.
- Both of Shane's parents were musicians when he was young. His mother was a member of the first all-female band in Louisiana. His dad's band opened for Blondie.
- Shane is a video game junkie.
- Shane's favorite food is pepperoni pizza.
- Shane loves to play on his N64.
- Shane has a dog named Duck.
- Shane has a celtic insignia tattoo between his shoulder blades.
- Shane appeared in Mandy Moore's video, "Cry".
- In 1997, Shane appeared in the cult hit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the season two episode "Go Fish".
- Shane West apperared in the movie A Time For Dancing with his A Walk To Remember costar, Peter Coyote.
- At the end of A Walk To Remember, Shane's character, "Landon," is accepted to medical school. Not to long after that, Shane landed a leading role in NBC's hit show ER as a doctor.
- He attended Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies.
- Shane was nearly cast as John Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines but they ended up giving the role to Nick Stahl instead.
- He dedicated a song to the late actor Jonathan Brandis.
- He has two sisters: Simone is 19 and half sister Marli Ann is less than a year old.
- Shane's father and mother are Don & Catherine West.
- He has a song on the soundtrack of the movie A Walk to Remember with his band Average Jo.
- He is 6' 1" tall.
- Shane got into acting when he was forced to take drama class in high school because he needed one more credit to graduate.
- He was so in love with the 1967 Camaro he drove in the movie A Walk to Remember, he bought it for $5000.
- Shane used to date dancer Jenna Dewan, actresses Marla Sokoloff, Rachel Leigh Cook, and Monica Keena.
- Shane: (About Mandy Moore) She's a total doll and she's very easygoing and willing to learn anything.
- Shane: In high school my nickname was 'hopeless romantic'. If I was interested in a girl, I did a lot of lovey-dovey things like writing poems. I'm still like that deep down, but it's hard to find someone who I can be that way with.
- Shane: (His silliest injury) While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.
- Shane: Sexy, to me, has everything to do with how one speaks, how someone holds themselves, their smile, and how they treat people.
- Shane: (on Character Eli) So having that background and doing three years of a divorced family, it wasn't hard, it was more like therapy.
- Shane:(in an interview) Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
- Shane:(On Learning to Shoot for "League of Extrodanary Gentlemen")I basically went in a little early to Prague and on the days that we were shooting and I wasn't involved, I learned how to use two six shooters and a rifle, a Winchester rifle.
- Shane: (On Co-star Connery)He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
- Shane: (On Being asked if he is more like Eli or Landon) I didn't have abandonment issues but he's a little bit more like me because Eli is a little bit more self-destructive and I'm not exactly that way.
- Shane: To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
- Shane: (on his astro-attitude) Since I'm a Gemini, I'm kinda schizo, but I'm fun and outgoing. I'm always the one who's trying to get everybody to feel OK. You know, 'Do you need anything?' I'm a good host.
- Shane (When asked if he believes in love at first sight): I don't know. It's hard to explain, but the only time I've ever been in love, I felt it in less than a week and still feel like it was true even to this day. But then other times that I thought I was in love, I knew that I ended up not being in love, but was more in love with the idea of being in love.
- Shane (on how he became popular): This popular junior girl got a crush on me at the end of tenth grade. Then things changed. I ended up being in the popular group, but as soon as summer hit, I realized that it was the wrong crowd for me.
- Shane: (On moving when he was younger) My sister and I were the only white people in school. It was the nicest group of kids I've ever run into.
- Shane: (On girls) The first thing I notice is their eyes and smile. I'm not a big make-up fan; I like them to be natural.
- Shane: I'm very cynical myself.
- Shane: Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.
- Shane: I'm not giving up acting. I'm definitely not going to stop.
