Scott Bakula Quotes

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

I am very much against weapons in space.

I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment.

I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.