Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
BRENT SPINERI 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 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].
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I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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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.
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Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
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I’ve gotten some feedback on it from people who’ve seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don’t know.
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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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I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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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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Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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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.
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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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That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would’ve been really great had it continued.
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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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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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Timing is everything, as you know.
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