Scott Bakula Quotes

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Scott Bakula

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 9, 1954

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

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I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

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I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town.

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Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'

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I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

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The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.

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Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

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Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

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'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.

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I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.

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I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

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I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

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I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

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On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

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The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

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The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

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I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.

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I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

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A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

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