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They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

Brent Spiner

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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Numbers People Wish
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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Clothes Night Voice
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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Basically Figured Lovely Producer Thing
Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
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Amazing Directed Experience Introducing
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.
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Control Director Look Rent Think
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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Family Interesting Stars Think Wells
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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Amazing Class Kind Miracles School
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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Heart Thinking Way
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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Actor Thinking Unemployment
I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don’t go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that’s what most of the people I knew did.
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College Country People
I 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.
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Guy Mean Parks
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
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Stars Suicide Thinking
[ 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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Film Impressive Real
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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Great Man Mean Someone Work
The one on Fresh Hell is a little easier, because we make it up. It’s a strange kind of hybrid of the real me and… Well, obviously it’s me standing there, and it’s my voice and my face, but it’s also kind of filtered through Harry Hannigan’s take on the character, the one he’s writing.
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Character Real Writing
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.
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Car Country Effort Half People

They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

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They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

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