Jonathan Frakes Quotes

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

Bruce Boxleitner

#2. Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood.

Autumn Reeser

#3. I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

Jonathan Frakes

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Jonathan Frakes

#9. My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Henri Matisse

#10. I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

Jonathan Frakes

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Jonathan Frakes

#16. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

Albert Einstein

#17. Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.

Jonathan Frakes

#18. Katherine, how quickly you forget that I never give up when I want something. And right now, I've decided what I want is you. I want you next to me twenty-four-seven, at least until I've sated the desire you left me with. Then, I may actually let you sleep. -Joseph

Melody Anne

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

Jonathan Frakes

#20. When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Dave Grohl

#21. 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

#22. What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Chauncey Wright

#23. I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Jonathan Frakes

#24. 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

#25. 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