The best scene is the last great scene I did.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

I'm never going to retire.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

As I look back on my life I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good I was actually being re directed to something better.

Some people around you don't mean you good.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

My mom is a typical mother.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

Drinking beer doesnt make you fat it makes you leanAgainst bars tables chairs and poles.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied.

Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Most corn is combine harvested which means its picked and shelled in the field but thats rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Without trust, no organization can sustain innovation because without trust, no one is willing to take the risks that innovation requires.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.