Quotes by Bruce Boxleitner

About Bruce Boxleitner:

Bruce William Boxleitner 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 (with Kate Jackson and Beverly Garland), and Babylon 5 (as John Sheridan in seasons 2–5, 1994–1998). 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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I started acting professionally at age 19.

Bruce Boxleitner

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.

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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.

Bruce Boxleitner

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

Bruce Boxleitner

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Bruce Boxleitner

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

Bruce Boxleitner

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

I just always had a love for television and movies.

Bruce Boxleitner

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

Bruce Boxleitner

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

Bruce Boxleitner

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

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

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Bruce Boxleitner

I don't call myself a writer.

Bruce Boxleitner

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

Bruce Boxleitner

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

Bruce Boxleitner

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Bruce Boxleitner

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

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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.

Bruce Boxleitner

Author Bio

  • NameBruce Boxleitner
  • Descriptionactor, writer
  • BornMay 12, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Novelist