James Callis credited as playing...
Dr. Gaius Baltar • President Gaius Baltar
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: [after Baltar walks in on Boomer trying to commit suicide] Sometimes we must embrace that which opens up to us.
- Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: Embrace?
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: Life can be a curse, as well as a blessing. You will believe me when I say that there are far worse things than death in this world.
- Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: So what you're saying is...
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: No, no. What I'm saying means nothing. Listen to your heart. Do that which you truly believe to be right.
- [he kisses her on the forehead and walks out of the room, while he's walking down the hall he hears a gun fire]
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: [Baltar has a two-way argument with Roslin and Number Six at the same time] Well, quite frankly, I don't give a flying frak whether you believe me or not, all right? Because I've had it, I am... I'm tired of being pushed and prodded around like I'm some kind of toy. I'm not your plaything!
- Number Six, President Laura Roslin: [simultaneously, in stereo] Plaything?
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: I don't work for you and uh, quite frankly, I don't have to sit any more and take this kind of abuse from either of you!... Er,
- [points at Billy]
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: *you* either... either in *here*, either in there, wherever it is...
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: You'll forgive me, Madam President, if I don't wish to be executed based solely on your... gut feeling.
- Doctor Gaius Baltar: [after finding out that he's being forced into becoming a politician while testing blood samples] Politics is the only thing more boring than blood samples.