So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.