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

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 S…

- Scott Bakula

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

- Scott Bakula

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…

- Scott Bakula

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

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

- Scott Bakula

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

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

- Scott Bakula

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

- Scott Bakula