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

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" Being on 'Star Trek,' you have a funny relationship with fame. "

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

" My favorite thing that I can do with my iPhone is dictate a letter. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No one can replace Amanda Tapping. "

" I've always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas. "

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

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

" I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really shy. "

" My agent loves me. "

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

" 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. "

" Nobody wants to play - I've talked to Brent Spiner about this. You don't want to play a character indefinitely who's not supposed to age. "

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

" Working with J. J. Abrams would be absolutely great. "

" 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. "

" 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 two consecutive Broadway seasons, I had probably the best juvenile roles there were for an actor. Then I moved to California to recreate my role in the film version of 'Tribute.' I started working in film and television after that, and 38 years blew by! "

" 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. "

" I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It's not what I do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away. "