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 NobleWalter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.
John NobleI 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[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 NobleI 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 NobleWhat 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.
John Noble