Noah Wyle Quotes

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Noah Wyle

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 4, 1971

I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.

Noah Wyle

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

Noah Wyle

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

Noah Wyle

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

Noah Wyle

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.

Noah Wyle

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Noah Wyle

The trick to playing Steve Jobs? I don't know.

Noah Wyle

'The Librarians' is a show that really needs to have ten days, but we shoot it in seven, so the workload is really tremendous, and we don't really quite have the budget to really give it the production value that it deserves, so we try to be as resourceful as we can.

Noah Wyle

My mother was an orthopedic nurse for 20 years, and she forbade all of us children to ever get on a motorcycle, and we listened.

Noah Wyle

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

Noah Wyle

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.

Noah Wyle

I'm a product of the city for sure.

Noah Wyle

If I didn't have a family, I don't know that I would never not be in a hotel room working.

Noah Wyle

When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a check for a hundred dollars. I never cashed it, because obviously it was worth way more than a hundred dollars.

Noah Wyle

I find directing so incredibly rewarding and challenging and humbling and exciting and engaging. Scenes become challenging. Actors bring out the best of you. Circumstances demand you dig deep.

Noah Wyle

When I got to sit in Big Bird's nest with Big Bird and sing the song, 'Sing. Sing a song. Sing out loud,' that was my crowning achievement.

Noah Wyle

Any time I go to a hospital, the doctors treat me like an equal, and I'm terrified I'll be in the delivery room, and the doctor will say, 'Noah. Noah, why don't you get a hand in here?' and I'll pass out or throw up and be horribly embarrassed.

Noah Wyle

With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.

Noah Wyle

I grew up on all the 'Star Wars' movies and 'Star Trek' and all that. I just haven't really kept current.

Noah Wyle

Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.

Noah Wyle