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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.

Brent Spiner

That’s what kids were like then. So I really like the movie [Dude, Where’s My Car? ], I think it’s genuinely funny, and I wish I hadn’t been so arrogant about it. And, of course, I didn’t know it was going to be my best work, either.
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Car Kids Thinking
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…
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Ideas Long Years
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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Gypsy Song Thieves
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.
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Costumes Series Studio Worked
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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Guy Mean Parks
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
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Believe Stars Tolerance
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.
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Character Comedy Serious
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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Broadway Country People
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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Actor Thinking Unemployment
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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Character Real Writing
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.
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Actually Movies Particularly Reason Watch
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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Great Man Mean Someone Work
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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Ideas Independence Thinking
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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Numbers People Wish
Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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Comedy Most Somewhere Time
Marianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.
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Amazing Class Kind Miracles School

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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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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