As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another.

A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

She's so obnoxious. Like a whole Saturday night drunk tank full of obnoxious packed into one little body." Detective Cavuto

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.