I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.

It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.

You Can Meet Someone Who Can Change Your Life In The Space Of A Year, In The Space Of A Month Or A Week.

When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

You know, I’m fan of women in general. I don’t want to discriminate.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

Vampires are a genre now.

There’s something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and there’s a lot of fun to be had doing that.

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

I am not surprised by any situation. The Saviour is my strength.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Imagine in what the president [Donald trump] wants to do, the 400 wealthiest families in America will get a tax break of $7 million a year.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.