Latest John Noble Quotes from Interviews

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• What I've observed is that television in the last decade has increased to something that's almost unrecognizable. They are feature films. That's a huge shift, and it's something the audience expects. They still may want to watch their half-hour sitcom, but when they watch scripted drama, they expect the standard.

  John Noble

  Drama, Film, Audience

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  John Noble

  Fun, Different, World

  Source: collider.com

• You basically go in animation and it's all in the imagination. There aren't even pictures to look at. You usually go in there and work with whoever the director is to create this voice and this character.

  John Noble

  Character, Voice, Imagination

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Character, Interesting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.

  John Noble

  Character, Years, Play

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Roles, Chosen

  Source: collider.com

• It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look for something that has some traction with other people. But, it's not like I read 100 scripts a week, and then pick and choose. Maybe some actors do. I certainly don't do that.

  John Noble

  People, Different, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• I'm truly grateful to the writers of Fringe for giving me that because, over the years, when I've spoken about the character with them, I've always felt that this would be the perfect way to end and complete his journey, and to complete the journey of this series, and they gave it to me.

  John Noble

  Grateful, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  John Noble

  Character, Son, Color

  Source: collider.com

• [on playing Walter] 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. It was like everything you could possibly hope for, over five years. So, I was a very lucky actor.

  John Noble

  Lucky, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

  John Noble

  Years, Guy, Television

  Source: collider.com

• Particularly in the final season [of Fringe], when we were shooting seven-day episodes with a reduced budget and big special effects, the team was so polished, by then, that we were able to do it and, I think, with incredible results.

  John Noble

  Team, Thinking, Special

  Source: collider.com

• I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things you could do and couldn't do, but normally we get pigeon-holed a little bit, as we go on in our careers.

  John Noble

  Dream, Careers, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

• [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.

  John Noble

  Jobs, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Thinking, Trying, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Always Working

  Source: collider.com

• We've had such a close relationship with the fans. Through social networking and the internet, we have much more contact, and we did go to things like Comic-Con. So, I think people know most of our secrets.

  John Noble

  Thinking, People, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Thinking, People, Television

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  John Noble

  Lines, Know How, Knows

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  John Noble

  Personality, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way, physically and mentally. So, to be able to play that, in the same television series, as playing the other ones was a fantastic gift for me.

  John Noble

  Character, Play, Different

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Sexy, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

• With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

  John Noble

  Fun, Avid, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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

  John Noble

  Challenges, Excited, Something New

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  John Noble

  Character, Hands, Ideas

  Source: collider.com