In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.
It's very frustrating not being on the air.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.
A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
I'm living what I always wanted to do.
Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
I started acting professionally at age 19.
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
I just always had a love for television and movies.
I don't call myself a writer.
I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.
Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.
