Before ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am’s attention, and I went on tour with him.
With ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ it’s not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You’re not sitting there going, ‘God, I wish they’d get it over with and kiss!’ There’s no teasing, they jump right into the action.
There’s never really been a time when vampires weren’t so over that you would be crazy to write a vampire book, or so huge that you would be crazy to write a vampire book. I’m not sure there’s ever going to be a time. We went from Anne Rice to Buffy to ‘Twilight.’
Weezer’s ‘El Scorcho.’ I’m in a ’90s cover band called ‘Straight 2 Video’ with members of the crew from ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
‘The Vampire Diaries’ is my favorite show, so being on it was cool. I really wanted to be on all of my favorite shows, so I was on ‘The Vampire Diaries’, ‘Law and Order’, and ‘House.’
You become like a vampire when you’re pregnant: your senses are so sensitive, and your emotions are so heightened – that helps with performance because you really feel things.
I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.
I think vampires are different from human beings, but they’re sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they’re universal themes.
The vampire is the new James Dean.
I’m one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables – yet – and I’m so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the ‘Vampire Diaries’ pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.
Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I’ve done it myself. Sometimes you just can’t bear another gear or pair of wings or vampire teeth. You go on a fast, and sometimes you come back, and sometimes you don’t.
I have always enjoyed vampire stuff without ever having been a full vampire geek. I suppose I love the idea of blood thirst because it can say so much about us, not simply about addiction but about all those desires that can tear a family apart.
With ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ it’s not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You’re not sitting there going, ‘God, I wish they’d get it over with and kiss!’ There’s no teasing, they jump right into the action.
I don’t like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see ‘I Am Legend’ with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you’ve seen many times.
I wanted to only do one season when I came onto ‘Vampire Diaries’ because I thought there was only so much to explore.
I do these conventions sometimes. We’ve been doing a lot of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ conventions, but I do Comic-Con and stuff all over the world. They can be taxing, and they can take it out of you a little bit, but it’s just great for the fans.
My first audition as a little girl was ‘Interview with the Vampire’ for Kirsten Dunst’s part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There’s got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
We’re trying keep ‘The Originals’ in the same world as ‘The Vampire Diaries.’
The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.
No TV show has meant more to me than ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’
Becoming a vampire is forever. You don’t get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that’s one of the big drawbacks with anything that’s permanent. How do you know how you’re going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.
I’ve been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I’ve had those calls from my agent, and I’m like, ‘Do you need me to ghost-write a vampire novel? What do you need? I’ll do Transformers… tell me!’
I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.
I’m an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody’s energy. But I give it back.
The ‘Degrassi’ producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them.
I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it’s never enough.
The intensity of the story breaking on ‘Vampire’ has never been easy. Every week, you’re starting with a blank board and trying to make a new movie. There’s no formula; there’s no franchise to hang your hat on.
I’m so lucky that ‘The Vampire Diaries’ happened. I’m so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.
I grew up watching ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and used to dream that I would grow up to be just like her. In a way, ‘Teen Wolf’ has a lot of those kinds of characters. We’re just kids by day, and yet we’re trying to fight demons and werewolves and bad people and save people that we love.
‘Interview with a Vampire’ is my all-time favorite. I also loved ‘An American Werewolf in London.’
I’ve worked with Len Wiseman before, on the ‘Underworld’ series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he’s tremendous, as a man and as a director.
As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.
I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.
I am a fan of the vampire shows, especially ‘True Blood.’ I’m obsessed with it. I got to meet the entire cast at Comic-Con and hang out with them. And that was awesome. I basically died and went to heaven.
I love that the collapse of The Other Side is being felt in both ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and ‘The Originals’ universes – as someone who is a fan of both shows, it’s very fun to watch.
I don’t really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people’s consciousness. But I do know they’re tremendously powerful. I mean, there’s a vampire on ‘Sesame Street.’ And Count Chocula. I don’t know why it’s so powerful.
I feel like – and maybe you’re going to think I’m crazy for saying this – ‘Vampire Diaries’ has crazy fans, ‘Pretty Little Liars’ has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than ‘One Tree Hill’s.
Actually I liked that ‘Let the Right One In,’ that Swedish vampire movie.
When people are like, ‘What do you think of this vampire craze?’ – well, I don’t really feel like it ever ended, personally, ’cause I’ve always been into them, like ‘Underworld.’
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
As someone who watched ‘The Vampire Diaries’ when I was 10 or 11, getting to be Miss Mystic Falls was very surreal for me.
‘Lost Boys’ is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called ‘Once Bitten,’ which is about an ’80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from ‘Dallas,’ shoulder pads, big earrings.
My first real kiss was actually on the set of ‘The Vampire’s Assistant’ with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.
The ‘Degrassi’ producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them. Every time I go back to Toronto, I see them and hang out with them.
The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We’re interested in the idea of immorality and I think we’re drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
I thought about how I’d play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.
I’m a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
I’m about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I’ve stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen – just until ‘Breaking Dawn’ is over.
I’ve loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp teeth, really. I remember you could get those fake vampire teeth, and I remember just keeping them in all the time.
I love a really, good in-depth facial, I’ve had the vampire facial. But I have my limits.
I was watching ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ – the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie.
