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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite

Brent Spiner

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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Fun Smart Successful
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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Stars Thinking Writing
Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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Comedy Most Somewhere Time
Timing is everything, as you know.
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Everything Knows Timing
A job is a job. And I like to work.
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Jobs Like Work
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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Sweet Thinking Three
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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Giving Hero Roles
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
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.
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Car Country Effort Half People
[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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Aviator Country People Years
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
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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Costumes Series Studio Worked
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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Broadway Country People
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
I’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.
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Actually Movies Particularly Reason Watch
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.
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Basically Figured Lovely Producer Thing

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