The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

So I'm up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter

A man makes choices, ” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.