The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

What you focus on grows.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.