I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

Sometimes people stay in the same cycle their entire life, but you can still mature within it.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.

I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up.

I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

I'm going to undress you slowly so I can take in every inch of your perfect body. Holy shit, he played dirty.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.

The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.