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].
BRENT SPINERIm thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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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 had a really nice time on [Alphas]. It was a bunch of really good actors, and I was particularly thrilled to be working with David Strathairn.
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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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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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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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[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
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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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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
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Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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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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[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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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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So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don’t know if you’ve heard that they’re going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D.
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I think I was technically uncredited as Local #1, because there were three of us. But I had the most lines [in My Sweet Charlie].
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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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