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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.

Brent Spiner

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.
BRENT SPINER

Guy Mean Parks
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
BRENT SPINER

Stars Suicide Thinking
I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
BRENT SPINER

Country Film Independence
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.
BRENT SPINER

Character Comedy Serious
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.
BRENT SPINER

Amazing Class Kind Miracles School
I got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he’s just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.
BRENT SPINER

Country Mine Miracle Wells
In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
BRENT SPINER

Country Heart People
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.
BRENT SPINER

Car Country Effort Half People
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.
BRENT SPINER

Conan Lucky Parks Something
That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would’ve been really great had it continued.
BRENT SPINER

Ideas Running Thinking
[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
BRENT SPINER

Aviator Country People Years
I don’t think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn’t.
BRENT SPINER

Stars Thinking Wanted
That’s what kids were like then. So I really like the movie [Dude, Where’s My Car? ], I think it’s genuinely funny, and I wish I hadn’t been so arrogant about it. And, of course, I didn’t know it was going to be my best work, either.
BRENT SPINER

Car Kids Thinking
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

College Country People
Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
BRENT SPINER

Amazing Directed Experience Introducing
I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where’s My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.
BRENT SPINER

Believe Car Thinking
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.
BRENT SPINER

Basically Figured Lovely Producer Thing
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 SPINER

Stars Thinking Writing
[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.
BRENT SPINER

Independence Jobs Sweet
We got to be really good friends [Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau]. It was just thrilling, every day. Every single day. I had a big couple of musical numbers in [Out to Sea], and I remember doing one of them and shooting it from beginning to end.
BRENT SPINER

Couple Friend Good Sea
I think everyone agrees First Contact was our best film, and even at that, they’re kind of… I don’t know, they’re sort of movies. But they’re kind of really Star Trek movies, if you take my meaning. It’s hard for me to say. I was glad to be doing them.
BRENT SPINER

Nice Stars Thinking
Timing is everything, as you know.
BRENT SPINER

Everything Knows Timing
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.
BRENT SPINER

Country Hair People Red Saws
[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.
BRENT SPINER

Directors Scene Trying
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.
BRENT SPINER

Couple Mean Men
Like, she had a caterer, she had wardrobe people, she had two makeup artists… I mean, we have makeup and we have wardrobe, but Felicia [Day] was, like, on it. She had two cameras operating, sets, extras everywhere. It was unbelievable.
BRENT SPINER

Makeup Mean Mom
Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.
BRENT SPINER

Acting Careers Thinking

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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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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