Noah Emmerich Quotes

United States, Actor
February 27, 1965

Noah Nicholas Emmerich is an American film actor who is best known for his roles in films such as Beautiful Girls (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Frequency (2000), Miracle (2004), Little Children (2006) and Super 8 (2011). From 2013 to 2018 he starred as FBI Agent Stan Beeman on the FX series The Americans for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2019.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

Noah Emmerich
- War
- Movie
- Action
It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

Noah Emmerich
- Mistake
- Saying
- Safe

I'm not really a zombie genre guy, I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.

Noah Emmerich
- Genre
- Turned
- Zombie
That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

Noah Emmerich
- Work
- Television
- Feedback
After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

Noah Emmerich
- Movie
- Role
- Last
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

Noah Emmerich
- World
- Modern
- Formality
Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

Noah Emmerich
- Actor
- Dramatic
- Comedies
A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.

Noah Emmerich
- Movie
- Place
- Set