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

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.

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.

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

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.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.

I promote my own self-hatred.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

The Gospel is not about man searching for GOD but GOD reaching out to mankind!

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.