Scott Bakula Quotes

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

There was a time when 'Batman' really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they'd be taking people away from the story.