Mark Sheppard Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
May 30, 1964

Mark Andreas Sheppard (born 30 May 1964) is a British-American actor and musician. He is often credited as "Mark A. Sheppard". Sheppard is known for his recurring roles as the demon/King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural, lawyer Romo Lampkin on the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Interpol investigator James Sterling on Leverage, and small-time crime lord Badger on Joss Whedon's Firefly.

Also known as Musician

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Mark Sheppard
- Drama
It seems to realize itself to be some of the most exciting TV and films that are made. Sci-fi just has that ability.

Mark Sheppard

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

Mark Sheppard
- Movie
- Interesting
It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.

Mark Sheppard
- People
- Job
- Interesting
I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

Mark Sheppard
- People
I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.

Mark Sheppard
- Movie
- Opportunity
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

Mark Sheppard
- Future
- Past
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Mark Sheppard
- Interesting
- Dance

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

Mark Sheppard
- Work
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

Mark Sheppard
- Imagination