Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'