28 Quotes by Jonathan Frakes

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.