Brent Spiner Quotes (39 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

In my heart, I've never left Brazil.

I don't read fiction at all.

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

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

Acting is acting.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't read Science Fiction.

I do prefer comedy.

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

Radical surgery is never fun.

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.

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

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.

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'm an avid biography reader.

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.

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

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

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