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

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.

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.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

I’ve been taught that it will be such an extraordinary story if it ends with forgiveness.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.