74 Quotes by John Noble

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.