Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

He was the toast to her butter.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

Don't worry about the masses. That's how you make a memorable moment.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.