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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.

Brent Spiner

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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Fun Littles Running
I’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.
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Actually Movies Particularly Reason Watch
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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Couple Mean Men
[ Felicia Day] is really figured it all out, and it was impressive. It was nothing like our set, because her set was like working on a real film.
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Film Impressive Real
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
I mean, what a man. Someone who’s done Preston Sturges movies, and I actually got to work with him? And he was great.
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Great Man Mean Someone 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
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
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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Couple Friend Good Sea
[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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Aviator Country People Years
I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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Country Film Independence
Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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Comedy Most Somewhere Time
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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Mean Moxie Queens
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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Numbers People Wish
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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Nice Stars Thinking
[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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Directors Scene Trying

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