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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.

Brent Spiner

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

Car Country Effort Half People
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.
BRENT SPINER

Cutting Gentlemen Mean Nice Second Version
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
BRENT SPINER

Actor Thinking Unemployment
I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they’d write an arc if I’d do it.
BRENT SPINER

Stars Thinking Writing
[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
BRENT SPINER

Aviator Country People Years
I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
BRENT SPINER

Memories Photography Space
The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young – I think I’m 28 years old in that – and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.
BRENT SPINER

Character Country Jobs
Voice acting is about the easiest thing to do. You roll out of bed, throw your clothes on that you had on the night before, you go into the studio, and nobody cares, just as long as you can speak.
BRENT SPINER

Clothes Night Voice
Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.
BRENT SPINER

Acting Careers Thinking
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.
BRENT SPINER

Conan Lucky Parks Something
That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would’ve been really great had it continued.
BRENT SPINER

Ideas Running 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…
BRENT SPINER

Ideas Long Years
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
BRENT SPINER

Stars Suicide Thinking
I mean, what a man. Someone who’s done Preston Sturges movies, and I actually got to work with him? And he was great.
BRENT SPINER

Great Man Mean Someone Work
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
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.
BRENT SPINER

Makeup Mean Mom

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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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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