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.
BRENT SPINERGenerally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
More Brent Spiner Quotes
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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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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’ve gotten some feedback on it from people who’ve seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don’t know.
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Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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I had no idea I was part of what was going to be a big mega-hit. I thought I was doing a B sci-fi movie [Independence Day].
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
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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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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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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.
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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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