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" I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff. "

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" It's nice to have a signature role. "

" I didn't realize it at first, but the Doctor is in the same spirit as those natural 'outsider' characters 'Star Trek' series have, like Spock and Data. "

" I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood - I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in 'The Crucible.' I played John Proctor. "

" 'Star Trek' is still my signature role because once you do a 'Star Trek' series, it's never really out of the marketplace. "

" Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say? "

" People admire a screen actor if they have theatre skills, but it's looked down upon by the industry as being not a 'real job,' in the way it isn't in New York or the U.K. "

" When an actor gets a role, especially in series television where he really is the part, the audience never thinks of another actor playing that role. If they accept you in the role, then they can't separate the actor from the character. "

" My agent loves me. "

" I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me. "

" I was part of the generation that was supposed to become doctors. "

" When we shot the pilot for 'Voyager,' Armin Shimmerman, who played Quark on 'Deep Space Nine,' was very gracious and outgoing about preparing us for these personal appearances. Still, nothing really can prepare you for the first time when you walk out on stage and 2,000 people in a room stand up and applaud simply because you're there. "

" We had great comic mileage in the 'SG-1' episode 'The Swarm,' where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else. "

" No one can replace Amanda Tapping. "

" If you're looking at my other major science fiction roles - the Doctor on 'Star Trek' and certainly Woolsey on 'Stargate' - I often play characters that might be good theorists and good thinkers, but you wouldn't call either of them very macho characters. "

" Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that. "

" For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible. "

" As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast. "

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" I like some science in my science fiction. "

Science Fiction

" 'Twin Peaks' is like a movie; 'China Beach' is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together. "

" My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, and when Dad died, my mom took it over. "

" You play a hologram on 'Star Trek,' and you have to spew line after line. I spoke in paragraphs on 'Star Trek.' "

" The best way to tell an actor he's going to be working more and much harder is to appeal to his ego. "

" Doing 'Star Trek,' I got to learn about it from the inside out. I got to learn what appealed to them, why sci-fi meant so much to people, why 'Star Trek' meant so much to people. "

" Science fiction fans are great, but they just aren't the same as groupies. "

Science Fiction

" 'Star Trek' tends to take itself a little too seriously. They were either very dramatic shows, or if we did a humorous show, it was always a little like, 'Oh, we're doing humor on 'Star Trek,'' especially on the original series. "

" Jerry Goldsmith's 'Voyager' theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material. "

" I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up. "