Scott Bakula Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Scott Bakula

  People, Singers, Knows

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  Home, Reality, Shoes

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Scott Bakula

  Married, Shows, Show Business

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  New York, Actors, Tests

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  Trials, Lawyer, Grew

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Passion, Creative, Support

  4 Copy quote

• 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...

  Scott Bakula

  Stars, Captains, Fans

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Scott Bakula

  Real, People, Acting

  4 Copy quote

• I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused

  Scott Bakula

  Agreement, Space, Wish

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Scott Bakula

  Loyalty, Lying, Priorities

  19 Copy quote

• Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

  Scott Bakula

  Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides, People

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  Dream, Kids, Likes

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  Thinking, Giving, Dollars

  4 Copy quote

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

  Scott Bakula

  Retirement, Age, Great Things

  7 Copy quote

• Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.

  Scott Bakula

  Running, Stress, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

  Scott Bakula

  Intelligent, Fans, World

  4 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin