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 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.

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...

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 - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused

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 don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.