Noah Wyle

“I'm a product of the city for sure.”

“'Falling Skies' was mostly night work in winter in Toronto. It was cold and wet, and we were filthy.”

“'The Librarians' fills a vacuum, providing true family programming for TNT.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I make a point of not logging into websites that give spoilers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“'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.”

“Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.”

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

“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.”

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

“After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.”

“A cameo in 'Doctor Who' would be kind of cool to have on my filmography.”

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

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