Brent Spiner Quotes

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

I'm open to trying multiple different types of styles.

I love doing projects that flip my last project on its head. And I love the challenge of taking on different characters.

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

I can try new genres because I know there are fans who will always be there to support what I would like to pursue.

What I love about 'Toast' is that there's always new stuff you can do with him.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I've done a good job of not putting myself in a box, being able to transform, and not being scared to try new things.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.