I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
I have a trend of my own.
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
My body gets weak without truth.
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.
What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.
I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again. " So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].
I remember they did all the makeup tests on me for Darla. . . Sorry, for "the vampire. " I was the test monkey for the vampire look, so I went through numerous variations of the prosthetics and camera tests before I actually got the job.