"I always knew I wanted to be an actor. Football was a way for me to make a name for myself. I had always hoped that it would segue into entertainment. Even though I enjoyed the actual Saturdays of football - the game itself - everything else that went into it I didn't enjoy. I didn't enjoy practising. I could never really put my arms around the single-mindedness that football encourages. I would often get in trouble for questioning a play. One of the marks against me, coming out of college, was that I thought too much. Individuality was discouraged. What made the experience tolerable was that I always recognised it for what it was, a stepping stone to an acting career."
TV Guide's Sci-Fi Q&A, September 1998
"Actually, if I weren't going to be an actor I would have played baseball probably. Or at least I would have tried to do that. Actually I was quite good once upon a time, athletically that was my true calling. But, I've never thought about being anything else. I was a stockbroker for six months... I just wanted to jump out of a window. I admire anyone who can watch quotes all day cause I couldn't do it. That's what sealed the deal in that I wouldn't do anything else but this."
Hollywood Spotlight Chat, 1999
"I only started playing [golf] recently but I'm totally hooked. I'd really like to work my way round all the classic courses in the world and maybe join in some of those ProAm tournaments - with the emphasis clearly on the amateur in my case. I have had some strange looks from golfers who've approached a hole and met this odd-looking creature with a big gold emblem on his forehead. It's amazing how many times they let me take my shot first."
Cult Times, August 1999
"I was fortunate in that I've always known. I can remember watching Star Trek when I was like in Kindergarten and thinking of going to other worlds, or watching a movie like Sounder and remembering how that made me feel. I've always wanted to be able to have other people experience through my acting or projects that range of emotion that movies and TV made me experience. I never wanted to be a fireman or a policeman - I've always wanted to be an actor. I studied Drama in high school. In college I knew that acting would be tough, so I went in as a pre-med major, so I could be a doctor in case the acting didn't work out. This is how warped a young person's thinking can be. After college, it was the early days of FOX and they were having contests to host regional programming. I won one of the contests so that kind of opened the door for me. It was kind of like an MTV - talk show format. I used tape from there to get an agent."
Ultimate TV Chat, May 1999
"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw Sounder. I remember the dad, Kevin Hooks' dad, going to prison, and I remember crying. Even at that age I thought what a great job it would be to have someone have these feelings about someone they don't even know, just by watching something!"
GateGuide Interview, January 1999
"Anthony Hopkins. I think he is the master of stillness. I could learn a lot from him. I'd love to work with Morgan Freeman - the master of economy. That's my thing - how actors can portray such great strength doing so little. I think that's kind of the secret of being a good actor. I would love to work with Deborah Unger - probably the most underrated actress today."
Ultimate TV Chat, May 1999
"I really don't see myself as a comedic actor. I guess one of the roles I've always wanted to play is to play Little Richard. As an actor, all the stuff this guy's gone through in his life - what a character that would be! I'd love to play Joe Lewis. I'd love to play Mohammed Ali, but I think that Will's already got that nailed down! Those types of characters. Or, uh, I'd like to play like some sort of spy, like a Bondian type character. That is the stuff that really interests me. Or somewhere down the line... I'd like to be a character in the Star Wars Trilogy."
GateGuide Interview, January 1999
"Actually I've already written a couple that we're in the process of shopping now [1999]. And I'm involved with producing a film with a group of friends of mine. That's a project we want to do just because we all dig each other and we've been together as a collective group of friends for quite a while. The whole producing-end of the business is starting to interest me more than the acting."
Ultimate TV Chat, May 1999
"I've got a couple projects that I can push around in the downtime. One's another sci-fi project, and one's a buddy film. I've had some interest, and hopefully in the next off-season I can go somewhere with those. I have absolutely no desire to direct. I don't want to deal with actors' egos and quirks; that would drive me bonkers."
TV Guide's Sci-Fi Q&A, September 1998