Jonathan Frakes Quotes

"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
(Related: Time, Day, Now, Preparation)

"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

"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
(Related: Life, Thought)

"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."
- Jonathan Frakes
(Related: Money, Hollywood, Reality)

"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."
- Jonathan Frakes
(Related: Actor)

"I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors."
- Jonathan Frakes
(Related: Actors, Writers)

"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
(Related: American, Baseball, Jazz, Literature, Writers)

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

"I always enjoyed going into the holodeck."
- 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
(Related: Time, Virtue, Fact)

"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
(Related: People, Earth)