Bruce Boxleitner Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I just always had a love for television and movies.

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

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• A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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• I started acting professionally at age 19.

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• I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

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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’m living what I always wanted to do.

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• It’s not highly intellectual material. I’m dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

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

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• I’ve had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

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• 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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Bruce Boxleitner (28)

Birth:	12th May, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Model, Television Producer, Writer

About

Bruce Boxleitner was born in Elgin, Illinois. He is an American actor, and science fiction and suspense writer. He is known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Babylon 5. He is also known for his dual role as the characters Alan Bradley and Tron in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film Tron, a role which he reprised in the 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy and the animated series Tron: Uprising.

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