My wife, Judith, is the best person in the world.

I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

I do the conventions now for two reasons. To raise money for Doctors Without Borders and travel.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

I did a different voice for Odo. When people hear my real voice, they're often confused.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out of ideas?

I worked with my son [Remy Auberjonois] when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law (1986) together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection. We're actually very affectionate.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in other aspects of the business.

And my father, being a good Swiss Protestant, always insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

The best part is the part I'm working at the moment.

It always takes a while to find out who the characters are.

If you do your job properly, you usually learn a lot about yourself from any role you play.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so at conventions we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like.

Deep Space Nine dwelt on a darker plane than the previous, wonderful versions-the original and Next Generation, wonderful series without which we could have never existed. Deep Space Nine had a darker, more neurotic kind of outlook in the characters. The characters had darker sides to them.