No, the type-casting didn’t happen until after Star Trek. I don’t think that you get typecast until you’ve been cast!

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a...

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real...

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl,...

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

I’d read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell’s stuff for a long time.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia – something that resists rapid change.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don’t flaunt religion in conversation with others.

When you’re on top and you lead the parade, everyone’s there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there’s a storm in your heart, there are...

It’s nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I’ve never considered that that’s how I might be categorized. I guess it’s better than being called ugly.

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

I’ve had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn’t have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to...

It’s like a play, and then we’ll do it again. Then, at the end of the evening, there’s always the opportunity and the need for pick-ups.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

I think there’s something great and generic about goldfish. They’re everybody’s first pet.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

As an actor, that’s the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I’d found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I...

I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I...

I actually think there’s a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further – as long as there’s substance...

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not...

I never went to school, so they just print out the lines, I do them. But that’s what I loved about the book, the science of it all.

I’m not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that’s concerned.

I had always acted for fun, and I wanted to do that. I really didn’t have the talent. I loved to play, but that’s a whole different level.

I have a Lab, it’s fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it’s fun.

My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you’re going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it’s seems like I’m looking out...

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to – that’s your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it’s just like taking a step into heaven....

STAR TREK wouldn’t die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn’t anything that was going to...

The point of my explanation is I’m very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out –...

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make...

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

I’m a shepherd, not a sheep, and I’ve always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

I got a job as an auto mechanic, and I would have stayed in that narrow kind of life if I hadn’t discovered art. Music changed me completely.