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" A cameo in 'Doctor Who' would be kind of cool to have on my filmography. "
Be Kind
Would
Doctor
" After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility. "
Scratch
Serious
Drama
" 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. "
Me
Doctor
You
" Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy. "
Got
People
Boy
" 'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck. "
Life
Universe
Financial
" Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience. "
Therapy
Time
Audience
" 'Falling Skies' was mostly night work in winter in Toronto. It was cold and wet, and we were filthy. "
Work
Skies
Night
" Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up. "
My Own
I Can
Writing
" If I didn't have a family, I don't know that I would never not be in a hotel room working. "
Hotel
Know
Family
" 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. "
Find
Best
Circumstances
" I grew up on all the 'Star Wars' movies and 'Star Trek' and all that. I just haven't really kept current. "
Just
Really
Movies
" I had apprehensions of playing Jobs in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley.' TNT was really excited about me taking the part, but I had worries I usually didn't have as an actor. "
Valley
Me
Playing
" I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony. "
Job
Guy
Hold
" I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework. "
Textbooks
Hardship
History
" I make a point of not logging into websites that give spoilers. "
Give
Point
Websites
" I'm a product of the city for sure. "
City
Product
Sure
" 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. "
I Can
Say
Daughter
" I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn't think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me. "
Me
Run
Remember
" I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life. "
Life
Destined
Noah
" It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. "
Interviews
Like
Now
" 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. "
Best
You
Successful
" 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. "
Motorcycle
She
Years
" 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. "
Look
Best
Face
" So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience. "
You
Ending
Off
" 'The Librarians' fills a vacuum, providing true family programming for TNT. "
Family
Fills
Programming
" '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. "
Budget
Value
Try
" The trick to playing Steve Jobs? I don't know. "
Know
Steve Jobs
Trick
" To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal. "
Couple
Between
Phenomenal
" 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. "
Loud
Song
Achievement
" 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. "
Competition
High School
School
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