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.
BRENT SPINERA job is a job. And I like to work.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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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 think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where’s My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.
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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 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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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’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…
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I can tell you one other story about Rent Control. The lead actress in the film, her name was Elizabeth Stack, and it turned out she was Robert Stack’s daughter.
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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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That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would’ve been really great had it continued.
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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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A job is a job. And I like to work.
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I don’t know what her budget was or is, but she had sponsors for her show, and we don’t have a sponsor yet, so basically, the difference is, our moms make our costumes.
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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.
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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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I mean, what a man. Someone who’s done Preston Sturges movies, and I actually got to work with him? And he was great.
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