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And I’m telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits.

Brent Spiner

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
Voice acting is about the easiest thing to do. You roll out of bed, throw your clothes on that you had on the night before, you go into the studio, and nobody cares, just as long as you can speak.
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Clothes Night Voice
And I’m telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits.
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Country Made Movie People Permits
I didn’t really watch the show [Star Trek]. I still haven’t seen about 150 of them. So I didn’t really think of them too much in terms of episodes. I thought of them as kind of one long seven-year episode.
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Country People Stars Thinking Years
Timing is everything, as you know.
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Everything Knows Timing
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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Actor Thinking Unemployment
A job is a job. And I like to work.
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Jobs Like Work
Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
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Amazing Directed Experience Introducing
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
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.
BRENT SPINER

Experience Lie Musical Number Really
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.
BRENT SPINER

Costumes Series Studio Worked
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
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Believe Stars Tolerance
I can tell you one other story about Rent Control. The lead actress in the film, her name was Elizabeth Stack, and it turned out she was Robert Stack’s daughter.
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Daughter Father Names
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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Ideas Independence Thinking
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.
BRENT SPINER

Giving Hero Roles
In my heart, I’ve never left Brazil.
BRENT SPINER

Country Heart People

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