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 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.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

It is never too late to make happiness your choice of life.

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more expensive, but it's a very sustainable product.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating.

I am a great person.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children and many writers.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

A real cousin or friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.

Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.