I could go anywhere in the world and people would stop me in the street and talk about Fringe and how much they adored it and asked questions about it.

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

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

What I've observed is that television in the last decade has increased to something that's almost unrecognizable. They are feature films. That's a huge shift, and it's something the audience expects. They still may want to watch their half-hour sitcom, but when they watch scripted drama, they expect the standard.

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

You're always working with the relationships. It's pretty demanding, but then again I love that.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.