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.

I have a very special love for all of those actors [in Fringe] and I'll miss them.Over the five years, we were given the chance to develop some pretty close bonds, both with our characters and personally, and we did.

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

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.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.