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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.
Brent Spiner
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Brent Spiner
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 2
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I think I worked an average of about 10 minutes a day [in Big Bang Theory series]. It took longer to get to the studio than I actually worked. So I regard the driving there as the actual job. The work itself was just fun.
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Harry [ Hannigan] and Chris [Ellis] are sitting there while we're doing [ Fresh Hell], and Chris is directing, obviously, but if we start fooling around a little bit, Harry comes in, and he's got some addition that makes it even funnier. But we start with a complete script.
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I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].
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I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office... It was his screening room in his office, actually, and I sat and schmoozed with him for about two minutes, which I think is standard, and, y'know, we got on fine.
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Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.
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[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.
Brent Spiner
Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian director came, his name was Gian Luigi Polidoro, and he determined I was the person to play the lead in his low-budget comedy. He'd won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and... He was, y'know, a skilled director.
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If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
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I mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.
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The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm 28 years old in that - and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.
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I did learn a lot from [ Felicia Day], though, and I was able to usurp some of her talent.
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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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Timing is everything, as you know.
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A job is a job. And I like to work.
Brent Spiner
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.
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There's such a grand fraternity of actors who've played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it for so long and was so great. I did it one time and... 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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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]. And, actually, it was Jeff Goldblum who looked at me one day and said, You know, I think this is going to be really something. And I said, Well, I hope you're right. And sure enough, it turned out to be.
Brent Spiner
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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I know a guy who writes on the show, it was his episode, and he called and said, Would you do it? And I said, Yeah. There's not really much else to tell, except that I was thrilled to be on The Simpsons, because it's one of the greatest series in the history of television.
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I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.
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