After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.