I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

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.

Marry the woman you love

The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.

Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.

We should enjoy and make the most of life

I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).