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" For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas. "

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" With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you. "

" By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run. "

" I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces. "

" My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd. "

" On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. "

" Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. "

" I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space. "

" I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so. "

" I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up! "

" Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater. "

" And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself. "

" It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain. "

" New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there. "

" I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in. "

" I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love. "

" The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show. "

" One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that. "

" I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager. "

" Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows. "

" I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows. "

" I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town. "

" I've shot a lot of places, and I've produced. I always thought, 'Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it's so difficult.' And New York, I always think, 'Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?' "

" The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have. "

" 'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time. "

" I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically. "

" The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie. "

" I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. "

" I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion. "

" I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.' "