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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. "

" 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 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. "

" The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like. "

" These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to. "

" If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really. "

" 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! "

" If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look. "

" 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. "

" 'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work. "

" In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical. "

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

" Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well. "

" I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship. "

" What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible. "

" I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up. "

" After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.' "

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

" 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. "

" The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do. "

" My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her. "

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

" I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly. "

" The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business. "