that...
Would you have made that speech, Bill?
I would have said the opposite. It was
Leonard who would make that speech.
Oh, I see!
-Well, I do remember...
-You're lying again!
You're lying. Don't do that.
I said, "It was Denise..."
I would really like to hear from you
what the cast's reaction was
to this performance.
Well, I can tell you
what Denise Crosby said.
Denise Crosby said, "Oh, Patrick!"
-"Please!"
-"Chill! Chill!"
"We got to have some fun!" And I said,
"We are not here to have fun, Denise."
-Famous quote.
-Yeah.
-"Who said it had to be fun?"
-Yeah, well...
Wow. He was a pain in the ass.
-But you know what?
-That changed.
Oh, did it change!
-And not only that.
-Did it change?
-I've got to say this...
-Everybody got serious?
-No, no.
-Oh, he changed.
-I gotta say this publicly.
-What do you think?
What are you... He was outnumbered
by wild Americans.
The United States has been very,
very good to me in many, many ways.
Personally, professionally, financially,
all of that.
But perhaps the one thing that I...
This is a good way to open that
"sir" speech when you get knighted.
-You think so?
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
-And then segue into the...
Yeah, but what about socially?
Socially? Yeah, too,
but the point I'm trying to make
is that America made me funny.
I wasn't funny before I came to...
I mean, maybe, okay, it's up for debate.
Maybe I'm still, you know...
No, you were amusing.
Now you're funny.
-You're funny ha-ha now.
-There, you're ha-ha funny.
That's thanks to the United States
and these guys.
Because they made me funny
and I wasn't funny before.
-You were doing things that...
-They're talking among themselves.
We're having this conversation.
They're trying to decide
who would have made that speech.
Who would have said...
Who was the more serious?
Yeah. Yeah.
-Now...
-Did you guys have that kind of...
Leonard came from a school of acting
similar to Patrick's.
Different approaches,
but he was Spock.
In the first years, he was Spock
for a variety of reasons. Mostly safety.
I was submerged. Yeah. I really was.
Personal safety, so he felt safe there,
and he was somewhat dour.
I mean,
he's got a great sense of humour,
and it only came out later.
-And were you wild from the beginning?
-I'm afraid so.
I have one question that
I would like to pose to each of you,
which I would love for you each
to answer.
And that is, at this point in your life,
when you look at it,
what did Star Trek mean for you?
-You looking at me?
-Sure.
Are you looking at me?
You looking at me?
I'm looking at you.
Well, ultimately,
Star Trek meant everything.
Star Trek was a springboard
into the many things
that I've done subsequent to that.
Star Trek led me
into being this celebrity thing
that is box office,
which means
people want you to do work
that they wouldn't ordinarily
want you to do.
But because you are popular,
you're in the public eye,
and you can get publicity
for the thing you're doing...
So, talent aside,
the celebrity thing brings with it
the ability to do things
you might want to do.
And that's what has happened to me.
Whatever negative things Star Trek
might have brought are far inferior
to the extraordinary luck that I've had
because of Star Trek.
Cool. Leonard?
I arrived in Los Angeles
when I was 19 years old.
And from the time I was 19
to the time I was 35,
I had increasingly better
and better roles over the years,
but never had a job
that lasted longer than two weeks.
So I was in that cycle that
so many actors are in,
which is, "What's the next job,
and will there be anotherjob?"
And you'd get a job,
and when the job was finished,
after four, five, six days, or 10 days,
whatever it was,
there's that empty feeling of
walking off the lot or driving off the lot
and not knowing when or where
you're gonna work again.
Right.
So, for me, for the first time,
to see my name actually
painted on a dressing