I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

No one is immune to grief. There are those amongst us today who have grieved deeply in the past and there are those who are grieving deeply now and sadly. All of us will grieve at some time in the future.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

Dogs and their well-being is one of my biggest passions in life. The Michael Vick case brought the issue of dogfighting to light... he knew what he was doing and never deserved to play in the NFL again.

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

I have a very nappy, curly head.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.