When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.