No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

Classroom is just a place to examine and to identify your classroom performance not your lifes success.

I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

Prejudice is an equivocal term; and may as well mean right opinions taken upon trust and deeply rooted in the mind, as false and absurd opinions so derived, and grown into it.

I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

Computers are finite machines when given the same input they always produce the same output.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.

In Brazil, you buy tickets to go to the stadium to watch the carnival, but in Trinidad, you buy a costume and take part. There are very few things that can rival that experience.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

You just have to forgive them for being men.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

I can't stay long; I'm in between meals.