Scott Bakula Quotes

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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.

  Scott Bakula

  Honesty, Believe, Character

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• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  Issues, People, Different

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

  Scott Bakula

  Growing Up, Kids, Opportunity

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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

  Scott Bakula

  People, Singers, Knows

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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.

  Scott Bakula

  Fun, People, Acting

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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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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  Home, Reality, Shoes

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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!

  Scott Bakula

  Fans, Able, Time Travel

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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.

  Scott Bakula

  Airports, Guy, Scripts

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

  Scott Bakula

  Married, Shows, Show Business

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• When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.

  Scott Bakula

  Escaping, Joy, Looks

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

  Scott Bakula

  Always Trying, Downtime, Theater

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

  Scott Bakula

  Trying, Television, Stuff

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

  Scott Bakula

  Character, Doors, People

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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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.

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  Hair, Play, Different

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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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.

  Scott Bakula

  Ideas, People, Feelings

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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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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  Fashion, Faces, Messages

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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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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  People, Acting, Cherish

  Source: collider.com

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• When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

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  New York, Actors, Tests

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Trials, Lawyer, Grew

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

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  Retirement, Age, Great Things

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• In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they're making? Why don't they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity.

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  Thinking, Giving, Dollars

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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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  Dream, Kids, Likes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Stars, Captains, Fans

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Passion, Creative, Support

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

  Scott Bakula

  Guy, Firsts, Theater

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