The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

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

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

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

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.

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...