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A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink and the nod, and the attitude and all that kind of stuff is a little easier to see with the sound off.

I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations - I'm not usually playing the person in reaction.

I had a panic attack years ago in preparation for a very difficult show. And you cannot hear, or see, or you can't compute. It's quite terrifying.

I sail to Hawaii and back a lot, and it sometimes involves very terrifying experiences. And you have to keep yourself from becoming panicky.

I got a call from my agent saying you have an offer to voice a cartoon by the name of 'My Little Pony.' And that's pretty much what went in my ear. So I asked him the three questions that actors always ask. I need to see the script, when and how much, which were legitimate questions.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

I don't know how to carry a tune.

The problem with Alien Voices 'was we had four really terrific years. And then it began to be about selling: Simon & Schuster wanted whatever, 40,000 units sold a year.'

I have to say as the years have gone on I'm getting a little tired of just Q, because I do a lot of other things.

Almost everywhere in the world you go, people will come up and say, "Oh my God, you're from 'Star Trek.'"

My first interaction with Gene was that after I auditioned I walked out of the room and then this big guy walks out with me, and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he says, 'You make my words sound better than they are.' And I said, 'Well, you must be the writer.' And he said 'I'm Gene Roddenberry.' And I had no idea who that was.

Being idly hanging around, and that's not good for an actor to do.

Q was naughty, you know? He's naughty. He's not evil. He's not all good. He's sort of bad. You get to play him the way you role out of bed in the morning.

The best movie for me is a science fiction movie, the best books for me are science fiction books. I love this stuff.

Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

I'd be happy to have run rehearsals for a month, but it gets expensive to do that.

I'd really like to think Picard and Q are each other's Jekyll and Hyde. That's an interesting way to look at their relationship, and it gives you a pretty good idea of who Q is.

When I did 'Farpoint,' I didn't even know I was going to do a second show, and the experience went on for seven years.

Q is a terrific part.

No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.

There's something inherently life-denying in television and radio and stuff that's canned.

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

You have to risk to get ahead The person whos always hugging the tree trunk and never walking out onto the skinny branches will never succeed. Sometimes you have to walk out onto the skinny branches, and that means having goals, taking a risk.

If a person says they're an athlete but they don't compete in sports, then you wonder if they're really an athlete. It's the same with acting. There are lots of people who call themselves actors but never act.

The thing about good acting is asking, how much are you going to reveal and when should you let the viewers' imagination take over?

'War of the Worlds' was a goof delivered as news bulletins. It was the beginning of an erosion that now has us in trouble. We just don't know where to get the truth. It was a piece made 56 years ago with all good intentions that still abused the public's trust. It was that little marble, that little push, and now no one trusts the media.

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