It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

Do what other successful people are doing, that is how you can be brilliant.

This is your life so fill it with beauty and love.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.