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" To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good. "
Scott Bakula
People
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" The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have. "
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Yourself
" On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. "
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Hard
Business
Show Business
" By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run. "
Scott Bakula
Run
Show
Successful
" 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. "
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Me
Show
Selling
" 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'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
" 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
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
You
Time
Think
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Hair
Behavior
Play
" 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
" 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
" These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to. "
Scott Bakula
Fans
Standards
You
" 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
" My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd. "
Scott Bakula
Hot
Favorite
Running
" I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space. "
Scott Bakula
Thought
Ashes
Space
" A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really. "
Scott Bakula
People
Know
Lot
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Always
Fantasy
Kid
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" '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
Success
Work
Nature
" 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
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
Myself
Time
Thought
" Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up. "
Scott Bakula
Great
Thinking
Stress
" 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. "
Scott Bakula
See
I Can
Care
" Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. "
Scott Bakula
Sides
Mates
Masculine
" I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so. "
Scott Bakula
Out
Story
Actually