I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Don't wait until it's too late to say I love you.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

I love accents, I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement — for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.