“To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapp...” — Scott Bakula Quote

To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

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.

For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.

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.

In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.

You work for such a long time to try and achieve something and then someone says you have to take nine months or a year off. You don't feel like you are getting any closer. It is hard for a while not to do anything, but that is what they are saying is the best thing for you. It is difficult to wake up and say there is not a lot I can do today.

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.