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1. The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink and the nod, and the attitude and all that kind of stuff is a little easier to see with the sound off.
2. The best movie for me is a science fiction movie, the best books for me are science fiction books. I love this stuff.
3. A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.
4. When I did finally get to the circus as an adult, I was very impressed by the trapeze artist. But, being 6 feet 3 inches and over 200 pounds, there was no way I could do a trapeze act. If I fell I’d take the catcher with me.
5. Q was naughty, you know? He’s naughty. He’s not evil. He’s not all good. He’s sort of bad. You get to play him the way you role out of bed in the morning.
6. I’d really like to think Picard and Q are each other’s Jekyll and Hyde. That’s an interesting way to look at their relationship, and it gives you a pretty good idea of who Q is.
7. I’m sure Roddenberry in his wildest dreams never would have thought he would have gotten five TV series out of his idea.
8. I watch all of the Q episodes. I just don’t remember them after I’ve turned off the television.
9. The thing about good acting is asking, how much are you going to reveal and when should you let the viewers’ imagination take over?
10. It was fans… who understood ‘Star Trek’ and brought it back to life. ‘Hill Street Blues,’ ‘The Paper Chase,’ and ’Til Fly Away’ all got second chances… So did ‘Gunsmoke’ and ‘Cheers.’ It’s very hard to change a network’s mind, but it can be done.
11. Being idly hanging around, and that’s not good for an actor to do.
12. I can only do Q when they ask me.
13. It’s not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.
14. My first interaction with Gene was that after I auditioned I walked out of the room and then this big guy walks out with me, and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he says, ‘You make my words sound better than they are.’ And I said, ‘Well, you must be the writer.’ And he said ‘I’m Gene Roddenberry.’ And I had no idea who that was.
15. Star Trek’ ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.
16. When I did ‘Farpoint,’ I didn’t even know I was going to do a second show, and the experience went on for seven years.
17. Q is a terrific part.
18. Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.
19. I’m not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.
20. Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We’ve lost that.