I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

You create a strong, unshakable internal core by unshakable internal core by understanding and pursuing the attributes that you want to inherit from your creator

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

I'm a bit of a tomboy.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.