It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

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.

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.