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" '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. "

Scott Bakula

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" Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show. "

Scott Bakula

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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" I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field. "

" To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show. "

Scott Bakula

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Selling

" To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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! "

" 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. "