Scott Bakula
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"Scott Stewart Bakula" is an American actor known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap (for which he received four Emmy Award nominations and, in 1991, won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama/Golden Globe) and for the role of Captain (Star Trek)/Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise.

Bakula has also starred in the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age and guest-starred in seasons two and three of NBC's Chuck (TV series)/Chuck as the title character's father Stephen Bartowski. He is currently guest-starring on HBO's Looking as entrepreneur Lynn and portrays Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride in NCIS: New Orleans.

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I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

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The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

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In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they're making? Why don't they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity.

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I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.

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I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

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I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

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On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

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The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

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Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

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