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 SPINERMy own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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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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I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
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Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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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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Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.
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The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young – I think I’m 28 years old in that – and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.
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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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Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
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I 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.
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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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[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.
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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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[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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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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I 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.
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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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I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we’re going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
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I got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he’s just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.
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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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A job is a job. And I like to work.
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Timing is everything, as you know.
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We 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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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 had no idea I was part of what was going to be a big mega-hit. I thought I was doing a B sci-fi movie [Independence Day].
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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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[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
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