56 Quotes by John de Lancie

I don't know how to carry a tune.

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.

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

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.

That was the great, great thing about 'Star Trek,' that it was a show that people could tune into at all sorts of different levels.

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.

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

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