Brent Spiner Quotes

The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often.

I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.

People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.

I think Ralph Fiennes has had a really wonderful career; there's something sort of classic about him. He does a bunch of different projects, but he approaches the work from a very sort of artful way.

To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.

Everyone wants to be James Bond, and there's a queue of guys ahead of me - but I will throw my hat into the ring. Bond is such an iconic role, you would have to seriously think how to approach it.