In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
BRENT SPINERTiming is everything, as you know.
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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A job is a job. And I like to work.
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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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Of those, the only one that really stands out for me is Tales From The Darkside, for a couple of reasons, one in particular being who I got to work with on it, which was Eddie Bracken.
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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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I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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I think everyone agrees First Contact was our best film, and even at that, they’re kind of… I don’t know, they’re sort of movies. But they’re kind of really Star Trek movies, if you take my meaning. It’s hard for me to say. I was glad to be doing them.
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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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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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I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
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It 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.
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I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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It 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.
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And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
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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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