Quotes from John Noble

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.

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'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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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