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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Let's face it: Amanda Tapping's shoes are difficult to fill. She's a great actress and a popular character on 'Stargate'; she's just a lovely person. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like some science in my science fiction. "

Science Fiction

" So many articles said, ''China Beach' is uncancellable,' but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts. "

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

" 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. "

" Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world. "

" I don't get 'Star Wars.' I just don't. "

" 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' 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.' "

" Even though my face has gotten more familiar with doing 'China Beach' and 'The Wonder Years,' I'm the kind of actor that people thought, 'Gee, that guy looks familiar. He must have put my storm windows in. He works at my bank or something.' "

" 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. "

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