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.

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.

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.

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.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

We wish

We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake.

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.