Nelsan Ellis

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

My years at Thornridge probably changed the course of my life.

Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'

My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.