Jonathan Frakes Quotes

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 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’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy.

I don’t think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

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

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.

Don’t get me wrong-I’m very thankful for all the aliens I’ve met and loved.

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.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Someone once said “Don’t try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements.”

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people’s great ideas because they’ll help make you better.

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.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us – as actors, writers, directors.