Scott Bakula Quotes

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.

Lots of people still live with fears about anything. It can be lots of different things. One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

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!

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.

I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

I am very much against weapons in space.

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

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.

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

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

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused

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

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

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...

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age