“They looked at me and said, “We have no idea.” That’s why you have to make your own backstory.”

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia.

The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost,

I’ve got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

When you’re tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

When you’re a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

So I wanted to play bad guys. But I’ve been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

And we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, “I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?”

My wife says I’m much happier when I’m not a regular on a TV show.

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.

I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.

Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I’ve no idea

The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.