Brent Spiner Quotes

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

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.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

I don't read fiction at all.

Radical surgery is never fun.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

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.

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.

A job is a job. And I like to work.

I'm, like, y'know, I didn't have a problem doing one scene in Dude, Where's My Car? I'm certainly not going to have a problem doing one scene in a [Martin] Scorsese movie!

I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

I think we're all fans, and I understand the whole world of fandom, because I am a fan.

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.

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.

[ 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.

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.

I had a really nice time on [Alphas]. It was a bunch of really good actors, and I was particularly thrilled to be working with David Strathairn.

The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.

I've gotten such good feedback from that [re-team with Wil Wheaton for Big Bang Theory appearance], and I hardly did anything.

I mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

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].

I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.

That job [on Out to Sea], more than any I've ever done, I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. And not only that, but I had a great part. So it was just beyond fun on every level.

[Out To Sea] was like a dream come true for me, because I got to work with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau], who were unbelievable.

One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.

[Fan In Lobby from Stardust Memories] that was just after The Dain Curse. My other big uncredited role from back then.

John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.

I think that Enterprise was getting better and better, actually, and if it had kept going, I think it would've turned into as good a show as any other in the Star Trek franchise.

[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.

It seemed like an interesting movie [Independence Day], and I thought I had a take on the part that was going to be unique. That doesn't happen to me very often.

They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

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.

I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.

I did learn a lot from [ Felicia Day], though, and I was able to usurp some of her talent.

I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].

I don't read Science Fiction.