Frakes Quotes & Sayings

Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out. — Bruce Boxleitner

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one. — Jonathan Frakes

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. — Jonathan Frakes

Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved. — Jonathan Frakes

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border. — Elizabeth Emken

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry? — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish. — Jonathan Frakes

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good. — Jonathan Frakes

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera. — Bill Frakes

You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others. — Bill Frakes

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower. — Glenn Ford

As a player it is great to experience many other ways of playing, other tactics and other mentalities. I have played in several countries and because of that I know without any doubt that the English league is the one for me. — Djibril Cisse

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. — Jonathan Frakes

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. — Jonathan Frakes

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. — Jonathan Frakes

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor. — Jonathan Frakes

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal. — Bill Frakes

Books can be viewed as food for the mind

Stop reading and your brain can become anemic

Read junk and your thinking can become malnourished

But handle your diet with books well and your life long learning never stops — Jonathan Frakes

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck. — Jonathan Frakes

When I was a kid, I wanted to be as good an actor as Patrick, as cool as Frakes, and as funny as Brent. From time to time, one of them would say something to me that made me feel like I'd taken a step in that direction, and it always meant the world to me. I loved it when Brent would joke around with me, because it made me feel like I was the peer I so desperately wanted to be, instead of the clueless teenager I knew I was. — Wil Wheaton

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

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp

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. — Jonathan Frakes

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe. I did that when I was younger and still do that to this day. — Suzy Amis

Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies. — Faye J Crosby

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class ... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that. — Nick McDonell

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

It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It is no coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment. — Dixie Lee Ray

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. — Jonathan Frakes

Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood. — Autumn Reeser

On Dantooine, when Mara made me stop using the Force like a crutch, I had a
lot of time to think about things. I realized I was using the force too much.
Uncle Luke uses it like an advisor, or sometimes a power source. Others use it
like a vibroblade, some like an opinion poll, and others yet like a whole
variety of tools. I thought all about that, and I guess I chose to follow in
Uncle Luke's footsteps."
-Anakin — Michael A. Stackpole

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. — Jonathan Frakes