I didn't really get a normal childhood.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.

I'm a big karaoke fan and I also love Justin Bieber unashamedly.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

And, look, I'm sorry if I have blond hair and blue eyes and my boyfriend looks like a vampire. What do you want me to do about it?

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

I know when I like to go see a show, I like to see people show as many different facets of themselves as they can, because I think that's the fun of it.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.