I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

Choose to be in love!

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.