John Billingsley

John Billingsley: (on the finale of Star Trek Enterprise) I'm all over the map on this one because I have a lot of different feelings about it. My problem with the final episode, ultimately, was that by jumping ahead however many years we jumped ahead, it was as if anything we did in the third and fourth seasons had no real weight. It seemed like the third and fourth seasons were being dismissed, which I'm sure was not the intention, but that was one of the things that bothered me.

John Billingsley: This is a silly story. I was at a train station on the southbound platform and on the northbound platform there was a big, thuggish looking guy. He had a woman pressed against the wall and he was speaking in a very ferocious manner. I thought he was assaulting her. There were not many people on the platform and nobody else seemed to be doing anything.

I thought, "What am I going to do?" This guy can beat the crap out of me, so I thought I'd act like a lunatic and distract him. I started yelling "Whoo, whoo, whoo!" I was acting like a train. They stopped, looked at me and burst out laughing. So clearly, I misread the situation. So it was both scary and mortifying at the same time.

John Billingsley: (About his role as Dr. Royce on Angel) It wasn't a particularly fleshed-out part. Everybody was very nice, and treated me well. I had nothing negative to say, but it wasn't something that was particularly memorable.

John Billingsley: (About Star Trek: Enterprise) Probably for me the best thing about the show is the fact that the crew has been together for over a decade, many of them having worked on Star Trek in all its incarnations going back to Next Gen. And there's a close and familial feeling. It's terrific to go to work and feel everybody cares for each other.

John Billingsley: (on what he knew about Stargate SG-1) Frankly, I didn't know the show at all. I had seen the movie when it first came out and I had dim memories of liking it, but that was all that I knew. When I found out I was going to be doing the show I watched a few episodes to familiarize myself with the series.

John Billingsley: (on making The Other Guys) I had a blast. Patrick McKenna was just a doll. I just enjoyed working with him so much. I didn't know him at all before we did the show, but we got on very well right away.

John Billingsley: (Speaking of Star Trek: Enterpriseand it's possible renewal) I mean, I don't know. Everybody has a different attitude towards it. My own sense of it [being] I'm an actor. The very essence of what we do is embrace unpredictability. The anomaly is that I actually had a job for three years. I mean that's the weirdest thing in the world.

John Billingsley: Given the fact that I'm a character actor, I don't really bring the qualities to the table they are looking for in an action and adventure show. They're not going to have me throwing punches and kissing babes.