Deborah Ann Woll
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.Collection: Imagination
Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.
I always fancied someone might call me 'Red,' like Katherine Hepburn.
My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I'm a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?
As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'
I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.
I've never been a much of a glamour girl.
I don't see myself going back to blonde outside of work though. I really like the red.
I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.
I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented.
It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.
Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.
Things that are unknown attract us.
I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.
I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer.Collection: Crush
I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as human would in the timespan of the show. However, I do think as a human you reach a point where there's a certain amount of humility and acceptance of life and its consequences when you see your own body change and age, and the pounds come or the wrinkles come.Collection: Humility
When someone new comes on and has their first nude scene - and even if it's not full nudity - it's always a weird, awkward setup. We have these famous merkins which are sort of toupees for your delicate areas to make it look like you're naked but cover you up a little bit. But we joke around a little bit with the newbies who are trying that stuff on for the first time.Collection: Over You
I have a policy that I don't actually watch the work that I do. There are all kinds of reasons to do that, but one really interesting side effect that has come about from that is that I have no imagery of the show that isn't from first-person.Collection: Interesting
Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.Collection: Growing Up
You can't aspire to have heightened senses, whereas you can aspire to tell the truth, every single second, and you can aspire to be dogged and just never let anything be enough, never give in, and never give up.Collection: Giving Up
As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do, you get a little bit more of a world in which you can say, "I think it would be really great, if this year, her fate wasn't determined by the boys," or that kind of thing. You have to pick your battles and make sure that you've earned the right to talk about that.Collection: Character
I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.Collection: Media
All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary.Collection: Fighting
As an actor, you never really set out to be a stand-out character. You just want to do justice to the story and enjoy playing it, and find all the different nooks and crannies of who someone is. For each part that you get, they're all special and you just try to give everything you can to each one. I don't know whether they're going to be stand out in that way or not factors into my work. They all stand out for me.Collection: Character
I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit.Collection: Thinking
It is definitely a hard show [True Blood] to jump into the middle of, but luckily we have things like HBO Go now. It's not like you've missed it and now you're stuck. And I think once guys give it a shot - and you'll be able to speak to this better than I will - there's a lot of stuff that can be interesting to guys. There's a lot of action. Plenty of people are getting their heads chopped off.Collection: Thinking
I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.Collection: Thinking