Ian Ziering

When I met my wife, I was forty-six, and it was love at first sight. Every day, my love grew deeper as I found out about her family values, that her parents were still together, that she wanted kids. So we fell in love, got engaged, got married, and a month later, we were pregnant!

Being a dad is the best role I've ever played, with all due respect to Steve Sanders. It really is the best thing ever.

As an actor, I get my insurance from the Screen Actor's Guild by union, and you have to make so much every year to get that type 1 insurance.

I never envisioned that I would be able to bring something to the entertainment table that would fit Las Vegas. Vegas is so presentational; it's live theater and, for me, it's always been film or television, which isn't why people come to Las Vegas. So it's exciting to be apart of all of this, the thrust of the entertainment of Vegas.

It's intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they're six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It's a lot to stand up to... My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.

I'm always looking for additional revenue streams.

As an actor, you know that every act has a closing curtain.

I have a lot of irons in the fire.

I feel blessed: having a family is something that I've always wanted. Having a second child is the realization of a dream come true.

In the entertainment industry, there remains one constant: change.

Being married, I don't know how to describe it. It's very comfortable when you find the right person. It all comes together beautifully.

We barely had cell phones on '90210.' It started in the '90s. That's pretty much when fax machines came into play. When I first got the script for '90210' I had to come into New York to get it. It was not emailed to me; there was no email.

In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

When I read the script for '90210,' I thought, 'Boy, this is very superficial,' and it was. I mean, the pilot was all about the glitz and the glamour of Beverly Hills, the obnoxious kids, and the fish-out-of-water story of Brenda and Brandon Walsh. I couldn't discern from that first script that the show would become very issue-oriented.

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

Bo Derek was wonderful to work with.

David Hasselhoff is awesome.

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

I'm a dad, and that's a job you can't fail at.