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" It's nice to have a signature role. "
Robert Picardo
Signature
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Nice
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" I like some science in my science fiction. "
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" 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. "
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Possible
" 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. "
Robert Picardo
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Looking
Good
" We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away. "
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Luxury
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" 'Star Trek' is still my signature role because once you do a 'Star Trek' series, it's never really out of the marketplace. "
Robert Picardo
You
Star
Signature
" 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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Space
Taste
" As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast. "
Robert Picardo
Busy
You
Way
" What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes. "
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Generation
New
Star
" Sometimes I have little movies that I've made that I wish would be seen by a larger audience. I have a horror movie called 'Sensored' which I'm very creepy and disgusting in, and then I have a family drama called 'The Legends of Nethiah' which has a science-fiction B-story. "
Robert Picardo
Wish
Movies
Horror
" Working with J. J. Abrams would be absolutely great. "
Robert Picardo
Would
Working
Great
" I can walk down the street, and 85 percent of the people on the block are really quite oblivious to me. They either think I'm probably an actor or else I installed their storm windows two years ago, or I work at their bank, or maybe I'm their cousin Marie's gynecologist. Then, to the other 15 percent of those people on the street, I'm a rock star. "
Robert Picardo
Me
Think
Work
" So many articles said, ''China Beach' is uncancellable,' but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts. "
Robert Picardo
Beach
Started
Said
" No one likes to think of themselves as a one-trick pony as an actor, but on the other hand, it's nice to be part of something that has an international popularity, that is seen literally everywhere in the world and stays in the marketplace forever. "
Robert Picardo
Actor
Forever
World
" 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. "
Robert Picardo
Interesting
End
Monday
" I've always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas. "
Robert Picardo
Had
Affinity
Always
" '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. "
Robert Picardo
Star
Always
Doing
" No one can replace Amanda Tapping. "
Robert Picardo
Tapping
Replace
Amanda
" 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. "
Robert Picardo
Theatre
New York
Down
" My agent loves me. "
Robert Picardo
Me
Agent
Loves
" 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. "
Robert Picardo
Doctor
Star
Spirit
" Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs. "
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Cold
World
War
" After 'Star Trek,' I was the commander on 'Stargate Atlantis,' the final season, and once my character had become a good commander, I was sorry that the show didn't last beyond that. "
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Character
Star
Good
" Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say? "
Robert Picardo
People
Why
Like
" I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me. "
Robert Picardo
Me
Moment
Mouth
" It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials. "
Robert Picardo
Living
Actor
Hard
" 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. "
Robert Picardo
Play
Grow
Like
" 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. "
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Deep
Time
Stand
" We had great comic mileage in the 'SG-1' episode 'The Swarm,' where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else. "
Robert Picardo
Away
Great
Than
" 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. "
Robert Picardo
Learn
Inside
Why
" I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.' "
Robert Picardo
Star
Own
My Own