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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.

Brent Spiner

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.
BRENT SPINER

Guy Running Smart
I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
BRENT SPINER

Stars Thinking Wanted
[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
BRENT SPINER

Independence Jobs Sweet
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.
BRENT SPINER

Guy Television Writing
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.
BRENT SPINER

Family Interesting Stars Think Wells
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
BRENT SPINER

Gypsy Song Thieves
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].
BRENT SPINER

Ideas Independence Thinking
Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
BRENT SPINER

Mistakes Mouths Sleep
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].
BRENT SPINER

Sweet Thinking Three
And I was, like, “Oh, my God, I can’t believe I’m performing a musical number in front of Donald O’Connor,” who’s one of the greats of the silver screen. But it was a thrilling experience, it really was.
BRENT SPINER

Experience Lie Musical Number Really
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.
BRENT SPINER

Couple Friend Good Sea
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
BRENT SPINER

Actor Thinking Unemployment
The one on Fresh Hell is a little easier, because we make it up. It’s a strange kind of hybrid of the real me and… Well, obviously it’s me standing there, and it’s my voice and my face, but it’s also kind of filtered through Harry Hannigan’s take on the character, the one he’s writing.
BRENT SPINER

Character Real Writing
In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
BRENT SPINER

Country Heart People
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.
BRENT SPINER

Country Hair People Red Saws
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
BRENT SPINER

Believe Stars Tolerance

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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