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.

[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.

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.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

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

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able to play comedy, to play incredibly vulnerable, which he did a lot of the time, to play the love story, and to play the relationship with the son, which is quite unusual. That's a gift to me, as an actor.