John de Lancie

Actors need to be known for having done something, because the alternative isn't so good.

Certainly when 'Legend' came around, I was very anxious to get it because I immediately recognized it as something worth doing.

I don't think that 'Legend' was the absolute greatest show on television.

I watch all of the Q episodes. I just don't remember them after I've turned off the television.

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

I'm of the opinion that it flies in the face of reason not to believe. The odds are too great against you to not believe that there is some sort of extraterrestrial life out there.

I've always been a Geographic fan, from as early as there was television.

I can only do Q when they ask me.

I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.

I'm really not a television watcher.

The perspective is that one week out of the year does not a career make nor enough income make.

I'm never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I'm just not what people think of.

I kind of pride myself in the fact that when people hire me it's always considered creative casting.

If a person says they're an athlete but they don't compete in sports, then you wonder if they're really an athlete. It's the same with acting. There are lots of people who call themselves actors but never act.

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

There's something inherently life-denying in television and radio and stuff that's canned.

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.

No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.

Q is a terrific part.

When I did 'Farpoint,' I didn't even know I was going to do a second show, and the experience went on for seven years.