I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
BRENT SPINERI always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
BRENT SPINERI 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 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 SPINERNeedless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she’s the queen of the web.
BRENT SPINERI actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
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 SPINER[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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 SPINERIt was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great. I think what was most eye-opening about it was that [Martin] Scorsese was just like any good director you work with.
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 SPINERIt wasn’t ’til I met Chris Ellis, who directed me in a little thing that was actually for a ride in Universal Singapore, for those of you who happen to be going to Universal Singapore.
BRENT SPINERI 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.
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 SPINERI 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.
BRENT SPINERAnd the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
BRENT SPINERHaving spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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