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The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age
Scott Bakula
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Scott Bakula
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 9
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St. Louis
Missouri
Scott Stewart Bakula
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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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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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The longer you are in acting business, the more you cherish the times when you're working with people that do great work, and can figure out how to enjoy themselves while they're doing the great work.
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It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment.
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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
Scott Bakula
And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.
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On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married
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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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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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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. Those ideas are universal and they work in any language.
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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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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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The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
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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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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 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.
Scott Bakula
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
Scott Bakula
Lots of people still live with fears about anything. It can be lots of different things. 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 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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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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