I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

