Brent Spiner Quotes

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

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• I don’t read Science Fiction.

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

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• I’m an avid biography reader.

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

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

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

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• Radical surgery is never fun.

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• 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.

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

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Brent Spiner (15)

Birth:	2nd February, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Musician

About

Brent Spiner was born in Houston, Texas. He is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. His portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact and of Dr. Brackish Okun in Independence Day, both in 1996, earned him a Saturn Award and Saturn Award nomination respectively. He has also enjoyed a career in the theatre and as a musician.

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