John Noble Quotes

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

  John Noble

  Strong, Father, Son

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Noble

  Grace, Inability, Genius

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Noble

  Children, Fans, Fandoms

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

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• 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

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

  John Noble

  Character, Needs, Actors

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  John Noble

  Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• In Revelation 12, we see a pure, holy woman giving birth to a son - a corporate son who brings victory by the blood of Jesus, their testimony and sacrifice. My vision is to see that kind of church moving in the authority, the sacrifice and love of Jesus.

  John Noble

  Jesus, Moving, Sacrifice

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• The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a character that is every actor's dream. So, you combine those two factors and it's been an incredibly memorable five years.

  John Noble

  Dream, Memorable, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  John Noble

  People, World, Fringe

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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

  John Noble

  Thinking, Gifted, Brady

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

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

  John Noble

  Men, Age, Hollywood

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• 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

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

  John Noble

  Thinking, Together, Glue

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  John Noble

  Children, Regret, Writing

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  John Noble

  Eye, Night, Sky

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• 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.

  John Noble

  Scripts, Know How, Knows

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

  John Noble

  Inspirational, Dark, Issues

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

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

  John Noble

  Character, Interesting, Actors

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

  John Noble

  Thinking, People, Television

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• I have a very special love for all of those actors [in Fringe] and I'll miss them.Over the five years, we were given the chance to develop some pretty close bonds, both with our characters and personally, and we did.

  John Noble

  Character, Years, Missing

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• 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

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• 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

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• '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.

  John Noble

  Character, Special, Connections

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• [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

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