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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.

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John Noble
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 20
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.
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We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.
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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.
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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.
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Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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