"Almost everyone has worked at Paramount at one time or another." - Brent Spiner
"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
"And I think that was the idea: by the end of the series, Data would ba about as close to human but still not be there." - Brent Spiner
"And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply." - Brent Spiner
"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
"Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job." - Brent Spiner
"As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!" - Brent Spiner
"But he's absorbed so much information and so much behavior from serving with humans that he is allot less machinelike now than he was in the beginning, and that was intentional." - Brent Spiner
"But we laugh all day long! And you can't knock that!" - Brent Spiner
"But, I think Star Trek is a very honorable show and there is allot of television that one could be doing and feel embarrassed about and certainly not proud of, which I feel very proud to be part of Star Trek." - Brent Spiner
"Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing." - Brent Spiner
"Data is no different from any other role I've ever played in that it's always difficult and it's always something that you just want to find some level of truth and believability in and try to solve problems along the way." - Brent Spiner
"Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep." - Brent Spiner
"Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world." - Brent Spiner
"Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception." - Brent Spiner
"I do prefer comedy." - Brent Spiner
"I don't read fiction at all." - Brent Spiner
"I don't read Science Fiction." - Brent Spiner
"I have considered working with George Clooney, but so far, I'm only considering it." - Brent Spiner
"I like coming to work every day and hanging out with 50 or 60 people who are a lot of fun to be around." - Brent Spiner
"I really think that success in this field is about tenacity and just sticking with it." - Brent Spiner
"I think as time has gone on, they've been pleased to find it not at all limiting role and probably the most wide open role in terms of what I am allowed to do." - Brent Spiner
"I think he is a bit of an outsider: he doesn't quite fit in, he doesn't quite belong, and people relate to that idea of being an outsider and being alienated." - Brent Spiner
"I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty." - Brent Spiner
"I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern." - Brent Spiner
"I think the idea, from the beginning, was that Data was a machine that basically teaches himself everything he experiences and sees becomes a part of his programming." - Brent Spiner
"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
"I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception." - Brent Spiner
"I think they have developed the character very nicely and it's gone exactly as it was planned to happen." - Brent Spiner
"I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc." - Brent Spiner
"I wanted to direct very early on, and then we started having directors who were caterers, drivers, and grips, so I thought better of it." - Brent Spiner
"I would assume that, at some point in the future, Paramount Pictures would consider doing a Next generation movie." - Brent Spiner
"I'm an avid biography reader." - Brent Spiner
"If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show." - Brent Spiner
"If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up." - Brent Spiner
"In my heart, I've never left Brazil." - Brent Spiner
"It;s always challenging to try to make a scene work- to make something you think would be interesting to watch." - Brent Spiner
"My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves." - Brent Spiner
"No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen." - Brent Spiner
"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite." - Brent Spiner
"Producers in this crazy town simply won't leave me alone, and I'm having to be firm." - Brent Spiner
"Radical surgery is never fun." - Brent Spiner
"So from the first year to the fifth year, we've seen Data get closer to basically being human-but he's not." - Brent Spiner
"The Lindbergh biography is fantastic. I just read it. And I loved it." - Brent Spiner
"There is also an innocence to Data." - Brent Spiner
"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
"There's a great mood on the set. It's a real fun place to come to work." - Brent Spiner
"Truly, the best part of my job are the people." - Brent Spiner
"Well my family and friends where delighted that I was going to be working on a regular basis and that they could turn on their TV every week and see me." - Brent Spiner
"Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work." - Brent Spiner
"Well, I was always a huge fan of the movies. I spent a great deal of time, as a a kid, watching movies." - Brent Spiner
"Yeah, I do like X-Files. I like the ones that star David Duchovny." - Brent Spiner
"Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct." - Brent Spiner
