Words matter. These are the best Robert Picardo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
We had great comic mileage in the ‘SG-1’ episode ‘The Swarm,’ where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else.
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.
I’ve always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas.
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.
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.
‘Twin Peaks’ is like a movie; ‘China Beach’ is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together.
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.
‘Star Trek’ posited a better future.
Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘Voyager’ theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.
It’s nice to have a signature role.
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.’
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.
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.
‘Star Trek’ is still my signature role because once you do a ‘Star Trek’ series, it’s never really out of the marketplace.
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.
You play a hologram on ‘Star Trek,’ and you have to spew line after line. I spoke in paragraphs on ‘Star Trek.’
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.
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.
I like some science in my science fiction.
My agent loves me.
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.
Science fiction fans are great, but they just aren’t the same as groupies.
The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds – that’s something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the ’60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.
I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That’s always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that’s basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.
Being on ‘Star Trek,’ you have a funny relationship with fame.
No one can replace Amanda Tapping.
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.
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!
Why wouldn’t I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?
