Rene Auberjonois Quotes (27 Quotes)

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

Paramount wanted a sex thing on Enterprise. And a nostalgic feel, like a return to the real old show. It was enough to have one neurotic Star Trek

The truth is the worlds of STAR TREK that we inhabited were so far apart.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

I would not recommend anybody holding their breath, ... Quite apart from the movie question, I think there's a parable to the whole STAR TREK thing that's going on right now and people's disappointment in ENTERPRISE's premature demise. When you have a fie

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

I'm never going to retire.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.