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Certainly when ‘Legend’ came around, I was very anxious to get it because I immediately recognized it as something worth doing.
I got a call from my agent saying you have an offer to voice a cartoon by the name of ‘My Little Pony.’ And that’s pretty much what went in my ear. So I asked him the three questions that actors always ask. I need to see the script, when and how much, which were legitimate questions.
If a person says they’re an athlete but they don’t compete in sports, then you wonder if they’re really an athlete. It’s the same with acting. There are lots of people who call themselves actors but never act.
I don’t physically enjoy watching TV. I don’t enjoy the commercials.
The perspective is that one week out of the year does not a career make nor enough income make.
No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.
The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink and the nod, and the attitude and all that kind of stuff is a little easier to see with the sound off.
It’s not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.
I’m not a great ‘Star Trek’ fan, but I love science fiction.
Q is a terrific part.
Almost everywhere in the world you go, people will come up and say, “Oh my God, you’re from ‘Star Trek.'”
Our world has us always here. We will be here from now ’til the end of time… maybe not! And that’s the scary part!
I kind of pride myself in the fact that when people hire me it’s always considered creative casting.
I have to say as the years have gone on I’m getting a little tired of just Q, because I do a lot of other things.
I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations – I’m not usually playing the person in reaction.
I can only do Q when they ask me.
That was the great, great thing about ‘Star Trek,’ that it was a show that people could tune into at all sorts of different levels.
I’d be happy to have run rehearsals for a month, but it gets expensive to do that.
It’s great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.
I’m never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I’m just not what people think of.
I watch all of the Q episodes. I just don’t remember them after I’ve turned off the television.
I live in such a free-lance world and I’ve done ‘Trek’ so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn’t an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.
I’ve always been a Geographic fan, from as early as there was television.
I had a panic attack years ago in preparation for a very difficult show. And you cannot hear, or see, or you can’t compute. It’s quite terrifying.
The thing about good acting is asking, how much are you going to reveal and when should you let the viewers’ imagination take over?
I was raised on the classics – Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.
Star Trek’ ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.
Actors need to be known for having done something, because the alternative isn’t so good.
I’m really not a television watcher.
I don’t think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I’m not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.
