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

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• The best scene is the last great scene I did.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• I’m never going to retire.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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Rene Auberjonois (19)

Birth:	1st June, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

René Murat Auberjonois is an American film, television, and theater actor. He is well known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the film version of M*A*S*H, Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid and for originating a number of characters in long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson, Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and attorney Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal.

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