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.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

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.

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.

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

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

She never looks at the ring.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.