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.
BRENT SPINERThere 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.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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A job is a job. And I like to work.
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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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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
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Of those, the only one that really stands out for me is Tales From The Darkside, for a couple of reasons, one in particular being who I got to work with on it, which was Eddie Bracken.
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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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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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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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Needless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she’s the queen of the web.
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In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
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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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I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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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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I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone’s and my first film.
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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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