Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

I'm starting my own family and there is no other feeling like it.

No actor in the world started off at the top.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.