Quotes from John de Lancie

'War of the Worlds' was a goof delivered as news bulletins. It was the beginning of an erosion that now has us in trouble. We just don't know where to get the truth. It was a piece made 56 years ago with all good intentions that still abused the public's trust. It was that little marble, that little push, and now no one trusts the media.

When I did finally get to the circus as an adult, I was very impressed by the trapeze artist. But, being 6 feet 3 inches and over 200 pounds, there was no way I could do a trapeze act. If I fell I'd take the catcher with me.

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

I hadn't watched 'Star Trek' when I was a kid.

Almost everywhere in the world you go, people will come up and say, "Oh my God, you're from 'Star Trek.'"

I really didn't follow Star Trek.

It was fans... who understood 'Star Trek' and brought it back to life. 'Hill Street Blues,' 'The Paper Chase,' and 'Til Fly Away' all got second chances... So did 'Gunsmoke' and 'Cheers.' It's very hard to change a network's mind, but it can be done.

I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.

I don't know how to carry a tune.

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.

I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations - I'm not usually playing the person in reaction.

I mean, an actor's got to be known for something. Typecasting is an unfortunate kind of reflex punishment for having done a good job. But what's the alternative? To not do a good job?

Q was naughty, you know? He's naughty. He's not evil. He's not all good. He's sort of bad. You get to play him the way you role out of bed in the morning.

I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.

Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.

I'm of the opinion that it flies in the face of reason not to believe. The odds are too great against you to not believe that there is some sort of extraterrestrial life out there.

It's great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

Our world has us always here. We will be here from now 'til the end of time... maybe not! And that's the scary part!

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

The part of television I like are things that have a documentary feel to them.

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

I watch all of the Q episodes. I just don't remember them after I've turned off the television.

I don't think that 'Legend' was the absolute greatest show on television.