John Quotes

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

The lie is elaborate and exact.

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

All good art is abstract.

In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.

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.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

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.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

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.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

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.

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.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.

I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.

A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

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.

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.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

You're always working with the relationships. It's pretty demanding, but then again I love that.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.