I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
BRENT SPINERI think I was technically uncredited as Local #1, because there were three of us. But I had the most lines [in My Sweet Charlie].
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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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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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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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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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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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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[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what’s best in it and make it work. That’s what it was like.
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Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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A job is a job. And I like to work.
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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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I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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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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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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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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I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we’re going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
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[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
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