Brent Spiner Quotations

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

Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.

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

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

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

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

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.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

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

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.

We're going to discover as time goes on that there is some adversity ... They are not in love with each other. These three guys were essentially shanghaied and made to do this job, whether they want to or not. And they're geniuses, so they have egos. I play a doctor, and I never met a doctor without an ego.

With the state of the world today, an alien intervention might be just what the doctor ordered. ... Threshold

Radical surgery is never fun.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

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

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

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

I don't read fiction at all.

I don't read Science Fiction.

No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

In my heart, I've never left Brazil.

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

I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

I'm an avid biography reader.

So from the first year to the fifth year, we've seen Data get closer to basically being human-but he's not.

I would assume that, at some point in the future, Paramount Pictures would consider doing a Next generation movie.

I have considered working with George Clooney, but so far, I'm only considering it.

But we laugh all day long! And you can't knock that!

I think the idea, from the beginning, was that Data was a machine that basically teaches himself everything he experiences and sees becomes a part of his programming.

I think as time has gone on, they've been pleased to find it not at all limiting role and probably the most wide open role in terms of what I am allowed to do.

I think they have developed the character very nicely and it's gone exactly as it was planned to happen.

I think he is a bit of an outsider: he doesn't quite fit in, he doesn't quite belong, and people relate to that idea of being an outsider and being alienated.

My character has a distrust of government as Big Brother, ... He doesn't see why this should be kept secret from the public.

Well, I was always a huge fan of the movies. I spent a great deal of time , as a a kid, watching movies.

Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work.

Well my family and friends where delighted that I was going to be working on a regular basis and that they could turn on their TV every week and see me.

Yeah, I do like X-Files. I like the ones that star David Duchovny.

Truly, the best part of my job are the people.

There's a great mood on the set. It's a real fun place to come to work.

I wanted to direct very early on, and then we started having directors who were caterers, drivers, and grips, so I thought better of it.

Producers in this crazy town simply won't leave me alone, and I'm having to be firm.

Sometimes I go off and er.....(laughs with people laughing in the background)...I er.......(laughs)......I may just go off now as a matter of fact.

Almost everyone has worked at Paramount at one time or another.

It;s always challenging to try to make a scene work- to make something you think would be interesting to watch.

Data is no different from any other role I've ever played in that it's always difficult and it's always something that you just want to find some level of truth and believability in and try to solve problems along the way.

It's so good, I can't even tell you,

Everyone I've ever known in my life, or seen, or met, or loved, or hated, is at risk of being destroyed. That's a pretty big chunk of fear, and I think that's what we are all dealing with, if we don't save the day.

I like coming to work every day and hanging out with 50 or 60 people who are a lot of fun to be around.

I really think that success in this field is about tenacity and just sticking with it.

But he's absorbed so much information and so much behavior from serving with humans that he is allot less machinelike now than he was in the beginning, and that was intentional.

But, I think Star Trek is a very honorable show and there is allot of television that one could be doing and feel embarrassed about and certainly not proud of, which I feel very proud to be part of Star Trek.

And I think that was the idea: by the end of the series, Data would ba about as close to human but still not be there.

The Lindbergh biography is fantastic. I just read it. And I loved it.