As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

I only wish to write.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

It’s because we help out when they’re in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible