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The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
Truth
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
Wisdom
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!
Wisdom
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
Truth
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.
Hope
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
Love
I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town.
Love
Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.
Wisdom
I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.
Wisdom
A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.
Wisdom
I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
Hope
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
Success
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
Life
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
Wisdom
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
Wisdom
Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.
Wisdom
After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'
Wisdom
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
Success
'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.
Wisdom
I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'
Wisdom
I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.
Wisdom
I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
Wisdom
I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements.
Wisdom
I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.
Wisdom
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