John Noble Quotes

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

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

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.

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.

You're always working with the relationships. It's pretty demanding, but then again I love that.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

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

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

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

A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.

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

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.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

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.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

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

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

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.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...