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Rene Auberjonois
American
Actor
About the author
I'm never going to retire.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
I really do the conventions now for two reasons.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Now
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Law
#Son
#Father
#Affection
#Alienation
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Character
The best scene is the last great scene I did.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Daughter
#Play
#Wilderness
It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Sense
#Artist
If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Job
I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Love
#Science
#Fact
#Fiction
I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Present
I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#People
#Theater
How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Running
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Question
#Deep
#Jazz
#Poetry
#Literature
#Space
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#End
#Friends
#Business
#Theater
#Actors
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.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#Being
#Actor
#Father
I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
Rene Auberjonois,
American
Actor
#People
#Voice