And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Future does not exist, live your day and build yours.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.