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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.

Brent Spiner

I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
BRENT SPINER

Country Film Independence
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
[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
BRENT SPINER

Independence Jobs Sweet
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…
BRENT SPINER

Actors Long People
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.
BRENT SPINER

Country People Stars Thinking Years
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.
BRENT SPINER

Basically Figured Lovely Producer Thing
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
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
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
A job is a job. And I like to work.
BRENT SPINER

Jobs Like Work
I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
BRENT SPINER

Stars Thinking Wanted
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.
BRENT SPINER

Fun Smart Successful
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
It wasn’t ’til I met Chris Ellis, who directed me in a little thing that was actually for a ride in Universal Singapore, for those of you who happen to be going to Universal Singapore.
BRENT SPINER

Going Happen Little Thing Universal
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
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.
BRENT SPINER

Control Director Look Rent Think

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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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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