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"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."
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"I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen."
Time
"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."
Actor
"Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps."
Time
"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
American
"I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors."
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"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."
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"I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish."
Life
"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."
Life
"If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better."
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