Brent Spiner Quotes - Page 2

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• We got to be really good friends [Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau]. It was just thrilling, every day. Every single day. I had a big couple of musical numbers in [Out to Sea], and I remember doing one of them and shooting it from beginning to end.

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  Couple, Good Friend, Sea

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• Comedy really is my bread and butter, even when I'm doing a serious character, with the exception of Outcast. I have found very little humor in this character. Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.

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  Character, Serious, Comedy

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• I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.

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  New York, College, People

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• Obviously we're doing a comedy [Fresh Hell], and our intent is to entertain, but we're also really aware and trying to stay aware of the subtext of what it's like to reach a certain age and be dismissed, basically, from the fraternity you've always wanted to be a part of, and the desperation involved in trying to claw your way back into it.

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  Trying, Age, Way

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• I know a guy who writes on the show, it was his episode, and he called and said, "Would you do it?" And I said, "Yeah." There's not really much else to tell, except that I was thrilled to be on The Simpsons, because it's one of the greatest series in the history of television.

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  Writing, Guy, Television

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• I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

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  Independence, Drs, Film

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• I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.

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  Mean, Guy, Parks

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• I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

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  Drama, School, Class

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• Both of the Quaid brothers, Randy and Dennis, were in my class, and Tommy Schlamme, who produced and directed The West Wing with Aaron Sorkin, among many others. Marianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.

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  Brother, Drama, School

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• My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

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  Song, Thieves, Gypsy

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• People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

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  Suicide, Stars, Thinking

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• Although I could be wrong. If Roland Emmerich's thinking about doing that at some point, I'd be glad to don the long hair again. But sometimes you can just go a little bit further out with something you're only going to be doing for a short run

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  Running, Thinking, Hair

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• Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

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  Play, Interesting, Roles

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• [The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

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  Years, Aviator

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• As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

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  Jobs, Cells, Brain

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• I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom. Gordon Willis was the director of photography, and at the end of the day, Gordon turned to Woody Allen and said, "We cannot accomplish all of this in this space. It's impossible." And we'd been rehearsing and trying to shoot this thing all day. So Woody said, "Okay, let's do something else." He looked at me and said, "Come back tomorrow, I'll put you in something else." And he did.

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  Photography, Memories, Space

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• I don't read Science Fiction.

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  Science, Fiction, Science Fiction

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• Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

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  Real, World, Real World

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• I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

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  Thinking, Causes, Concern

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• Basically, my deal is that I choose roles based on three criteria. One is the role, obviously, if it's something that speaks to me. Two is, are they gonna pay me? And three is, who am I gonna work with? And, really, if one of those is there, I'm pretty likely to do it, but it's particularly important to me who I'm going to work with, 'cause that's part of the joy.

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  Two, Joy, Important

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• Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

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  Mistake, Sleep, Mouths

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• Radical surgery is never fun.

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  Fun, Radical, Surgery

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• No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.

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  Trying, Bigs, Screens

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• I don't read fiction at all.

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  Fiction

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• Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

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  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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