I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
BRENT SPINERI don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
BRENT SPINERI 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.
BRENT SPINERPierre [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 SPINERMartha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
BRENT SPINERAnd I’m telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits.
BRENT SPINER[ 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.
BRENT SPINERI did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who’s an illustrious director now, and it starred…
BRENT SPINERMarianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.
BRENT SPINERIt’s fun to do something different. And there are things you can do in a small palate that you can’t necessarily do in a larger role.
BRENT SPINERA job is a job. And I like to work.
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.
BRENT SPINERAnd the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
BRENT SPINEREarl Mills is probably the best role I’ve ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work with Halle [Berry] and Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Austrian actor who’s a hero of mine.
BRENT SPINERI always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
BRENT SPINERI don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
BRENT SPINERWe 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.
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