I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
BRENT SPINERHaving spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don’t know if you’ve heard that they’re going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D.
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I didn’t really watch the show [Star Trek]. I still haven’t seen about 150 of them. So I didn’t really think of them too much in terms of episodes. I thought of them as kind of one long seven-year episode.
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And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
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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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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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Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
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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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Joey being one of my finest performances ever. Matt LeBlanc’s basically doing the same thing right now, playing himself on Episodes.
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I’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.
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In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
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I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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Timing is everything, as you know.
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I assumed, “Well, I must’ve sounded like Conan O’Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something.” And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.
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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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