By all standards, except for ‘Star Trek’ standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.

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,...

If you’re a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I’d kinda go anywhere to work with her.

New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

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...

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

‘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.

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.

My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about ‘The X-Files,’ so I’d watch that with her.

‘Quantum Leap’ gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it’s demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around...

I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to.

I get nervous even guesting on other people’s shows.

‘Behind The Candelabra’ is an HBO movie. It’s the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas...

My favorite thing about running is running when it’s as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It’s a great stress reliever for me. It’s great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it’s things...

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

To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good.

I like pop, rock n’ roll, big band, Broadway – I like all those elements.

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.

It’s a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I’m proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human...

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

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...

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.

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

I was actually cut out of ‘L.A. Story’… and rightfully so.

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn’t be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you’re such-and-such an actor, you can’t be on the...

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

My oldest son started to like ‘South Park’ and ‘Family Guy,’ so we’d watch together so I could spend time with him.

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...

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.

What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.

I’d really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.

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...

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...

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.

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

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

I’m a musical theater guy. That’s where I came from. That’s where I go whenever I have the chance. It’s my first love.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I don’t know if you’ve ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the...

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 ‘NCIS’ franchise is beyond successful.

After ‘Quantum Leap,’ a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, ‘I can’t do that right now.’

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as ‘Scott Bakoola.’ Not a good sign. I also didn’t get the show.

I’m a runner from sports. I’ve been a runner, but I wasn’t a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it’s around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they’re...

I haven’t really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can’t do.

I don’t even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in ‘Grease.’

Clive Barker is just genius, and he’s incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.