It was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great. I think what was most eye-opening about it was that [Martin] Scorsese was just like any good director you work with.
BRENT SPINERI 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.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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I got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he’s just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.
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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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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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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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[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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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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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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[ Felicia Day] is really figured it all out, and it was impressive. It was nothing like our set, because her set was like working on a real film.
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The only problem with that – and she was lovely – was that she was basically hired because [Gian Luigi Polidoro] thought she was [film producer] Ray Stark’s daughter. And he figured that if he ran out of money, her father would kick in some more.
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That’s what kids were like then. So I really like the movie [Dude, Where’s My Car? ], I think it’s genuinely funny, and I wish I hadn’t been so arrogant about it. And, of course, I didn’t know it was going to be my best work, either.
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I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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A job is a job. And I like to work.
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