 At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun. |
| If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do. |
| I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great. |
| I'm never going to retire. |
| The best scene is the last great scene I did. |
| And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. |
| They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped. |
| I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do. |
| My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness. |
| How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out? |
| I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. |
| And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business. |
| I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice. |
| The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. |
| I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. |
| It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are. |
| I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it. |
| I really do the conventions now for two reasons. |
| I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people. |
