You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Mutually helping team members achieve both individual and team objectives.

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I would much rather have you believe in something I don’t agree with than to accept everything blindly.

Your body is not the real you. It's just the physical house you live in. The real you is your spirit, which will live on forever.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

When everything falls apart, only one thing sustains our hope: God loves us, he loves everyone!