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

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.

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.

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

How's Alison getting on?'Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.