A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
An actor's job is to use his imagination and that's what's required with blue screen.
As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.
Babylon 5 is one of the few shows where we really have a great group of people and there are very few prima donnas.
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.
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.
Everybody always wants to do the opposite of what they've been doing, but they've never allowed me to be the bad guy.
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.
I cannot remember wanting to do anything else, usless, maybe I wanted to be a farmer.
I don't call myself a writer.
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.
I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.
I just always had a love for television and movies.
I like to listen Clapton, Springsteen... more of the artists who are part of my generation, but especially Clapton.
I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
I started acting professionally at age 19.
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
I started in the theater, and in the theater sometimes you understudied other parts while you played a part, and the one time I did get on Broadway, I joined a show when they needed an understudy.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
I tried out for Luke Skywalker believe it or not, with many, many others back then.
I used to watch TV shows or go to the movies and I would play those things I saw.
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
I'm currently co-writing a science fiction series of novels for Berkeley. We're starting with two and we'll see where they go.
I'm living what I always wanted to do.
I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.
I've rodeoed, I managed to learn all about being a cowboy for my role in How the West Was Won.
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.
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
It's very frustrating not being on the air.
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.
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.
That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
That's the thing about a television series: you're doing this much longer than you would a movie role, so you start to live it.
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
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.
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.
We don't have a back-breaking schedule, and because of our number of regulars, you're not over-used and tired, and you can have a home life, which is marvelous.
Well, maybe not ER because of its calibre, but if I were to do a guest shot on another drama, it might be looked at by Hollywood as a step down.
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
Bruce wrote the science fiction novels “Frontier Earth” and “Frontier Earth: Searcher”.
Bruce has three sisters; Terri, Sandi and Nancy.
In September 2002 Bruce was elected to a three-year tern on the National Board of Directors from Screen Actor Guild's Hollywood Division. He was one of eleven people on the board. He received 5,569 votes.
Bruce has one stepson, Dakota Brinkman.
In May of 1998 Bruce was appointed to the National Space Society Board of Governors.
Bruce married actress Melissa Gilbert on January 1, 1995; they have one son, Michael.
Bruce Boxleitner has three sons: Sam born in 1980, Lee born in 1985 and Michael born in 1995.
You can share a link to this page with your friend!