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

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 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.

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

I’m still here. My son is around me all the time. At the end of the day he still loves me and I love him, so it is what it is.

At the end of the day, it’s hard to win against the NFL. It’s a billion-dollar business, it’s hard to win against it.

What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.

I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.

That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

And to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.