I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.