Bruce Boxleitner quotes

Bruce Boxleitner is an American actor, well known for his roles in television and science fiction. Audiences recognize him for starring in series like "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and "Babylon 5," as well as the "Tron" film franchise. He has built a long-lasting career across decades in film, TV, and voice acting. Here are 28 of his quotes:

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets. (Bruce Boxleitner)

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Bruce Boxleitner

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

Bruce Boxleitner

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

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It's very frustrating not being on the air.

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In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

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I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Bruce Boxleitner

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Bruce Boxleitner

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

Bruce Boxleitner

Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.

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I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that. (Bruce Boxleitner)

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Bruce Boxleitner

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Bruce Boxleitner

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

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

Bruce Boxleitner

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

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I just always had a love for television and movies.

Bruce Boxleitner

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

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I started acting professionally at age 19.

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I don't call myself a writer.

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I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend. (Bruce Boxleitner)

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Bruce Boxleitner

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Bruce Boxleitner

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

Bruce Boxleitner

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

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Bruce Boxleitner

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: May 12, 1950
Quotes count: 28

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