Michael Trucco

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

That's probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role when you do have a fan base as potent as the 'Battlestar Galactica' family. There was certainly a lot of curiosity to all of us on that show - what are you going to do next? Where can we see you next? That was a question we got more often than not.

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often.

If I hadn't become an actor, I would've pursued a race-car driving career.

Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.

I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

You just can't fake chemistry.

I'm the luckiest guy alive.

A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship.

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.