black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Brent Spiner

As it turns out, sometimes that bites you. In this case, I saw pictures of Earl [Mills], and…I actually met him. He was quite old at the time, but he had this sort of curly red hair, so we did that in the film. I got a perm and had red hair, and… It was a mess.
BRENT SPINER

Country Hair People Red Saws
I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
BRENT SPINER

Country Film Independence
The only problem with that – and she was lovely – was that she was basically hired because [Gian Luigi Polidoro] thought she was [film producer] Ray Stark’s daughter. And he figured that if he ran out of money, her father would kick in some more.
BRENT SPINER

Basically Figured Lovely Producer Thing
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.
BRENT SPINER

Character Real Writing
Pierre [from Dude, Where’s My Car?] could be the best thing I’ve ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.
BRENT SPINER

Car Country Effort Half People
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].
BRENT SPINER

Sweet Thinking Three
[ Felicia Day] is really figured it all out, and it was impressive. It was nothing like our set, because her set was like working on a real film.
BRENT SPINER

Film Impressive Real
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.
BRENT SPINER

College Country People
I’ve gotten some feedback on it from people who’ve seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don’t know.
BRENT SPINER

Enjoyed Feedback People Seen
Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
BRENT SPINER

Everyday Jobs Laughing
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.
BRENT SPINER

Country Mine Miracle Wells
I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
BRENT SPINER

Stars Thinking Wanted
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
BRENT SPINER

Actor Thinking Unemployment
That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would’ve been really great had it continued.
BRENT SPINER

Ideas Running Thinking
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
BRENT SPINER

Stars Suicide Thinking
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
BRENT SPINER

Believe Stars Tolerance

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brent Spiner Quotes