I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex. I'll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

There's just something about vampires that's sexy...It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time.

I literally pass out when I see blood.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

I like to read stories where heroes are actually heroes.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.