I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.

When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.

I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

I have not been recognized.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.