And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
BRENT SPINERMy own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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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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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 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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[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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I 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…
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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 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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Earl 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.
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I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
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I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
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Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
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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…
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I didn’t really watch the show [Star Trek]. I still haven’t seen about 150 of them. So I didn’t really think of them too much in terms of episodes. I thought of them as kind of one long seven-year episode.
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