DeForest Kelley

I'm very grateful for the career that I've had. And I'm very grateful for the experiences that 'Star Trek' has afforded me, along with my past background.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

I had fallen in love with California.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.