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Brent Spiner
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 2
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Musician
Screenwriter
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Houston
Texas
Brent Jay Spiner
Brent Jay Mintz
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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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It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.
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I assumed, Well, I must've sounded like Conan O'Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something. And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.
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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.
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I'm an avid biography reader.
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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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I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
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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. Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.
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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.
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Radical surgery is never fun.
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Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
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[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.
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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.
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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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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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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 don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn't.
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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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[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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