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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.

Brent Spiner

Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
BRENT SPINER

Amazing Directed Experience Introducing
I’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.
BRENT SPINER

Actually Movies Particularly Reason Watch
Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
BRENT SPINER

Mistakes Mouths Sleep
[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
BRENT SPINER

Independence Jobs Sweet
Of those, the only one that really stands out for me is Tales From The Darkside, for a couple of reasons, one in particular being who I got to work with on it, which was Eddie Bracken.
BRENT SPINER

Couple Mean Men
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
BRENT SPINER

Actor Thinking Unemployment
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

Character Comedy Serious
Timing is everything, as you know.
BRENT SPINER

Everything Knows Timing
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
[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what’s best in it and make it work. That’s what it was like.
BRENT SPINER

Directors Scene Trying
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
Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
BRENT SPINER

Comedy Most Somewhere Time
Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.
BRENT SPINER

Acting Careers Thinking
As it turns out, sometimes that bites you. In this case, I saw pictures of Earl [Mills], and…I actually met him. He was quite old at the time, but he had this sort of curly red hair, so we did that in the film. I got a perm and had red hair, and… It was a mess.
BRENT SPINER

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

Country Film Independence
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.
BRENT SPINER

Costumes Series Studio Worked
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
In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
BRENT SPINER

Country Heart People
I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
BRENT SPINER

Firsts Memories Stones
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
BRENT SPINER

Stars Suicide Thinking
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

Episode Legacy Stars
Actually, I had a really nice part in that movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains]. I mean, I have, like, one second in the final-cut version, where I say “You’re fired” to Diane Lane. That’s about all you see of me.
BRENT SPINER

Cutting Gentlemen Mean Nice Second Version
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.
BRENT SPINER

College Country People
I think everyone agrees First Contact was our best film, and even at that, they’re kind of… I don’t know, they’re sort of movies. But they’re kind of really Star Trek movies, if you take my meaning. It’s hard for me to say. I was glad to be doing them.
BRENT SPINER

Nice Stars Thinking
I mean, what a man. Someone who’s done Preston Sturges movies, and I actually got to work with him? And he was great.
BRENT SPINER

Great Man Mean Someone Work
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…
BRENT SPINER

Ideas Long Years
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.
BRENT SPINER

Numbers People Wish

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