Happy Birthday DeForest Kelley!

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

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

My ambition is peace and perfection.

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

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

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

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

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

I had fallen in love with California.

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

I have considered myself a mature actor.

My father started me singing in church.

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.

What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.

Well, it got to a point to where I was trying to say it in so many different ways... I'd switch it around and sometimes I'd say 'Jim, he's dead.' I think that's probably gonna be on my tombstone: 'he's dead, Jim.

My favorite fan letter that I received contained a marijuana cigarette pasted onto a piece of cardboard, along with a photo of a delightful, young girl. The letter said, 'You have turned me on so many times I ought to return the favor.' I kept that one.

I wouldn't have been anywhere near Leonard Nimoy. He's marvelous.

In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky.

Shut-up, Spock! We're rescuing you!

I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget.

He's really not dead, as long as we remember him.

By golly, Jim... I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!

I'm a Doctor, not a... whatever.

You have been and always shall be, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy!