Scott Bakula Quotes

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Scott Bakula

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 9, 1954

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

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My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

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Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.

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For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.

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The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

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New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

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For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.

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The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

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The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

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Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

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To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

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It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain.

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I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.

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'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.

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I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

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After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

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With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

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'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.

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I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast.

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I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

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