I've always found ways to bend the rules.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

I find directing more satisfying.

People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can’t hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they're trying to hide behind their smile.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.