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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.

Brent Spiner

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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Mistakes Mouths Sleep
I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
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Firsts Memories Stones
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
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
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
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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Fun Littles Running
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
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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Country Fictional People Real World
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
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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Conan Lucky Parks Something
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
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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Going Happen Little Thing Universal
And I was, like, “Oh, my God, I can’t believe I’m performing a musical number in front of Donald O’Connor,” who’s one of the greats of the silver screen. But it was a thrilling experience, it really was.
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Experience Lie Musical Number Really
One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.
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Family Interesting Stars Think Wells
Actually, I had a really nice part in that movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains]. I mean, I have, like, one second in the final-cut version, where I say “You’re fired” to Diane Lane. That’s about all you see of me.
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Cutting Gentlemen Mean Nice Second Version
I 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.
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Daughter Father Names

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 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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