When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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.
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.
I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.
I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
Oh yeah, 'Starship Troopers' was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends.
When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?