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Joey being one of my finest performances ever. Matt LeBlanc’s basically doing the same thing right now, playing himself on Episodes.

Brent Spiner

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what’s best in it and make it work. That’s what it was like.
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Directors Scene Trying
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
I’ve toyed with this idea [of Fresh Hell] for a long time. I actually wrote a feature years ago with this sort of concept in mind, and it’s gone through several incarnations, and…
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Ideas Long Years
I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
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Stars Thinking Wanted
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.
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Character Comedy Serious
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
A job is a job. And I like to work.
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Jobs Like Work
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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Gypsy Song Thieves
I’ve gotten some feedback on it from people who’ve seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don’t know.
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Enjoyed Feedback People Seen
There’s such a grand fraternity of actors who’ve played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it for so long and was so great. I did it one time and…
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Actors Long People
Pierre [from Dude, Where’s My Car?] could be the best thing I’ve ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.
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Car Country Effort Half People
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
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Believe Stars Tolerance
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
I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who’s an illustrious director now, and it starred…
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Broadway Country People
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

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