Noah Hathaway Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

Billy Lange, he's the man. That's who I've kind of been stealing ideas from. Everybody steals ideas from each other.

Harley's been influential, but I'm not a big Harley fan.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

I had my first Harley when I was 16, so it was something I've been tinkering with.

I have some friends trying to drag me back into acting, but I'm fighting them and trying to focus on getting this chopper thing going.

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I was 3 when my parents got me a commercial agent, and I've been working ever since.

I was ten and a half and my mother saw this little thing in Variety that said they were looking for an Indian boy for The NeverEnding Story.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I'm an action fanatic.

I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

I'm not a mechanic and I didn't grow up with my dad being a mechanic, so I'm learning as I go. Which is kind of rough.

I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year.

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.

It became more than just a child's film to me and everyone else... there was a message for everyone at any age.

It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

No, I don't have any plans on getting back into the business full time... but you never know what opportunities the world will offer you.

Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.

So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.

The bikes we're building... I build the frame, pipes, handlebars. We're sending stuff to get patented so people don't steal our stuff.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

With Harley, you build it, then you've got to take it apart.

You never think when you are shooting a movie, or you are doing what you're doing, that people, that you touch people.

You're starting out in the garage and see where it's going to take me. We'll bring them to the conventions and that'll help spread the word.

Trivia

Noah and his father, Robert Hathaway, appeared in "Battlestar Galactica" (1978) and Troll (1986) together.

Robert Hathaway was the music editor in Unendliche Geschichte, Die (1984), the movie in which Noah played Atreyu.

He was a Junior Lifeguard as a teenager.

Has a tattooed wedding ring and his wife has one, too. He stated that he would never do it again if he had known what pain it caused.

Worked as a bartender in several Los Angeles clubs.

Victory Records artist Atreyu derived their name from the character he played in The Neverending Story.

The band Atreyu named itself after his character in Unendliche Geschichte, Die (1984).