In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

Sometimes people stay in the same cycle their entire life, but you can still mature within it.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.

I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up.

I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.