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Brent Spiner
American
Actor
About the author
Radical surgery is never fun.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Radical
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.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Man
#Potential
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.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#People
#Question
#Business
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#People
#Career
#Being
#Suicide
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Song
#Favorite
If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#People
#Today
#Business
If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
I'm an avid biography reader.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Biography
I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Character
#Potential
#Cruelty
I don't read Science Fiction.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Science
#Fiction
I don't read fiction at all.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Fiction
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Time
#World
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.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Business
#Actor
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!
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Hope
#Will
#Day
Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
Acting is acting.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Acting
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
Brent Spiner,
American
Actor
#Word
#Business
#Concern
#Causes