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" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Never
Star
Original
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" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Different
Genius
Gifted
" Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater. "
Scott Bakula
First
Everything
Well
" On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. "
Scott Bakula
Hard
Business
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" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Things
You
Stand
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
History
Now
Music
" These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to. "
Scott Bakula
Fans
Standards
You
" 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! "
Scott Bakula
Day
Time Travel
Time
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Watching
Look
People
" My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her. "
Scott Bakula
Watch
About
Crazy
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
First
Chance
First Love
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Like
Little
Play
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Challenge
World
Realize
" By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run. "
Scott Bakula
Run
Show
Successful
" I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager. "
Scott Bakula
Got
Always
Play
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Show
Year
Done
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Proud
Places
Say
" For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen. "
Scott Bakula
Like
Feel
Always
" I grew up in St. Louis, and I don't know if you've ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent. "
Scott Bakula
Sometimes
Over
Know
" What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible. "
Scott Bakula
Better
Worse
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. "
Scott Bakula
Soccer
Growing Up
Growing
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
You
Interesting
Looking
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Done
People
My Life
" After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.' "
Scott Bakula
Quantum
Now
Say
" The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects. "
Scott Bakula
Tent
About
Action
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Trying
Passion
Creative
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
You
Imagination
Mind
" To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good. "
Scott Bakula
People
Good
Most
" I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so. "
Scott Bakula
Out
Story
Actually
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Opportunities
Love
Theatre
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Shoe
Day
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