The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

When it comes to relationships, I find it best to have two feet out the door

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

Iran would do well to look at the calendar and realize there's a new president in the Oval Office. And Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president [Donald Trump].

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.