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Bruce Boxleitner
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#First
#Ideas
#Draft
#Writer
I just always had a love for television and movies.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Love
#Movies
#Television
I'm living what I always wanted to do.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Living
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Love
#Fashion
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Character
#Man
#Leading
#Actor
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#School
#Training
I started acting professionally at age 19.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Age
I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Fun
I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Results
#Projects
I don't call myself a writer.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Writer
A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Time
#Now
#Needs
#Quick
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,
American
Actor
#Today
#Popular
#Language
#Computer
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Past
#Fiction
As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Time
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Writers
#Actors
I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#God
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Will
I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Years
#Horses
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
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.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Now
#Crime
#Earth
#Science
#Fiction
#Mystery
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Art
#Books
#Artist
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Now
#Television
#Budgets
That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Being
#Actor
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.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#War
#Old
#Movies
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,
American
Actor
#Ideas
#Writer
#Help
It's very frustrating not being on the air.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#Being
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.
Bruce Boxleitner,
American
Actor
#American
#Television