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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Tall, completely jacked, steroids, like multiple growth hormones. That's, like, the type that I'm attracted to.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.