Quotes from Bruce Boxleitner

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

I started acting professionally at age 19.