'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.

Noah Wyle

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Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

holiday horse thanksgiving

I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain w... by Noah Wyle

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

certain way thinking

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

hollywood girlfriend father

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

gave-up audience therapy

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.

daughter mother son

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was wo... by Noah Wyle

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

worried guy jobs

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

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

interviews

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textb... by Noah Wyle

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

read homework hardship history

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.

place competition way school

After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratc... by Noah Wyle

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

versatility serious drama long

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy. by Noah Wyle

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

fast boy get people

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

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

trick steve-jobs playing know

'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 days value try

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.

she motorcycle mother children

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple... by Noah Wyle

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

weeks between phenomenal couple

I'm a product of the city for sure. by Noah Wyle

I'm a product of the city for sure.

product sure city

If I didn't have a family, I don't know that I would never not be... by Noah Wyle

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

never know hotel 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.

deep best you circumstances

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.

sit achievement song bird

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.

doctor me you time