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...

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Don't let others define your dreams.

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan

God's truth tells us the truth about ourselves, but His grace forgives us for the truth He reveals.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.