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John Noble is a renowned film actor, born on August 20, 1948. He is known for his exceptional acting skills and diverse roles in the film industry.

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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.”

Certain Social Grace Genius Mere Patterns Communicate Mortals Inability Eccentricity Mere Mortals Social Graces

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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.”

Writing Years Children Lasts Regret Consumers I Regret Layman

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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.”

Knows Needs Character Actors Backgrounds

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

Thinking Together Fringe Glue

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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.”

Men Age Situation Hollywood Theater Handsome

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

Thinking Gifted Brady

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

Men Father Strong Grows Son Allowing Very Strong

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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.”

People World Streets Fringe

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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.”

Children Lord Fans Students Rings Massive Fandoms

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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.”

Knows Know How Scripts

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“I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from "Fringe"]... I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played.”

Different States Originals Bunch Versions Fringe

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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.”

Character Stories Special Scene Connections Love Story Peter Fringe Anna Special To Me

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

Character Versions Mannerisms

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“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.”

World Years Done Shows Seems Bits Imagination Five Commitment Five Years

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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.”

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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.”

Years Character Actors Given Chance Five Special Missing Five Years Fringe Special Love

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

Knows Pieces Late

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“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.”

Has Beens Two Ideas Hard Character Hands Lasts Managers No Idea Bishops

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“I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was in an ordinary universe or a universe in the future.”

Thinking Character Universe Ordinary Intrigued Storyline Backdrop

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

Used Challenges Happened Excited Something New

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

Kids School Sexy

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“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.”

People Fun Talking Reader Becoming Objectives Fringe People Talking Avid

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“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.”

Way Different Play Character Able Television Series Versions Fantastic Different Ways

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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.”

Knows Bits Lines Know How

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“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.”

Different Certain Actors Personality Aspect Paint Versions Broads Canvas

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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Social Secret Fans Internet Contact Comic Networking Social Networking Social Network Close Relationship Comic Con

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

People Thinking Knows Hard Television

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

Thinking Trying Scene Complexes Rhythm

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

Always Working

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“[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.”

Trying Jobs Challenges Week Minutes Television Shooting Fringe Laurels

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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.”

Thinking Bigs Able Results Team Special Effects Seasons Seven Finals Incredibles Shooting Budgets Episodes Fringe Polished Special Effects Seven Days

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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.”

Littles Dream Given Bits Challenges Acting Careers Goes On Little Bit Pigeons

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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.”

Years Guy Television Serious Tough Heavy Pigeons Tough Guy Baddies

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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.”

Play Character Stories Able Actors Comedy Wonderful Color Son Love Story Vulnerable Unusual

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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.”

Actors Lucky

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“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.”

Way Giving Years Ends Character Would Be Felt Perfect Journey Grateful Series Fringe

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

Roles Chosen

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“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.”

People Looks Different Might Actors Week Picks Scripts Lists Traction

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

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“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.”

Knows Years Said Play Character Remember Certain Roles Example Six Years Ago My Family Instinct Guts Remember When Gut Instinct

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

World Different Fun Animation Different Worlds

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“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.”

Looks Character Voice Imagination Directors Animation

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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.”

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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.”

Film Audience Drama Sitcom

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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.”

Inspirational Humans Faces Sides Dark Human Beings Issues Our Lives Progress Demon Dark Side

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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.”

Humans Eye Night Force Imagination Clear Sky Planets Red Gravity Mars Night Sky Human Imagination

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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.”

Thinking Wells Ideas Happenings Australia Retirement Elsewhere Pastures

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About the Author

Born: August 20, 1948
Known for: Film actor
Quotes: 47

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