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And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

Brent Spiner

We would literally grab a shot and run. But Rent Control… I think the total cost was $100,000, and to this director’s credit, I think it looks like $200,000.
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Control Director Look Rent Think
I think I worked an average of about 10 minutes a day [in Big Bang Theory series]. It took longer to get to the studio than I actually worked. So I regard the driving there as the actual job. The work itself was just fun.
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Fun Jobs Thinking
It’s fun to do something different. And there are things you can do in a small palate that you can’t necessarily do in a larger role.
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Fun Littles Running
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
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Stars Suicide Thinking
That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would’ve been really great had it continued.
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Ideas Running Thinking
Like, she had a caterer, she had wardrobe people, she had two makeup artists… I mean, we have makeup and we have wardrobe, but Felicia [Day] was, like, on it. She had two cameras operating, sets, extras everywhere. It was unbelievable.
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Makeup Mean Mom
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
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Numbers People Wish
I think I was technically uncredited as Local #1, because there were three of us. But I had the most lines [in My Sweet Charlie].
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Sweet Thinking Three
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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Country Fictional People Real World
A job is a job. And I like to work.
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Jobs Like Work
One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.
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Family Interesting Stars Think Wells
I mean, what a man. Someone who’s done Preston Sturges movies, and I actually got to work with him? And he was great.
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Great Man Mean Someone Work
As it turns out, sometimes that bites you. In this case, I saw pictures of Earl [Mills], and…I actually met him. He was quite old at the time, but he had this sort of curly red hair, so we did that in the film. I got a perm and had red hair, and… It was a mess.
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Country Hair People Red Saws
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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Amazing Class Kind Miracles School
I had no idea I was part of what was going to be a big mega-hit. I thought I was doing a B sci-fi movie [Independence Day].
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Ideas Independence Thinking
Actually, I had a really nice part in that movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains]. I mean, I have, like, one second in the final-cut version, where I say “You’re fired” to Diane Lane. That’s about all you see of me.
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Cutting Gentlemen Mean Nice Second Version

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