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.
BRENT SPINERI can tell you one other story about Rent Control. The lead actress in the film, her name was Elizabeth Stack, and it turned out she was Robert Stack’s daughter.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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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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Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
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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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It’s fun to do something different. And there are things you can do in a small palate that you can’t necessarily do in a larger role.
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There’s such a grand fraternity of actors who’ve played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it for so long and was so great. I did it one time and…
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[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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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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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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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.
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Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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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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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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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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I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they’d write an arc if I’d do it.
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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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