I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.