Rene Auberjonois Quotes

#1. The best scene is the last great scene I did.

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#2. I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

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#3. The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.

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#10. The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

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#14. For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

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#15. I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

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#16. Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.
Twitter post, July 29, 2012

Gore Vidal

#17. If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

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#18. Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Anatole Broyard

#19. How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

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#20. For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

#21. 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.

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#22. And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.

Philip Marsden

#23. I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

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#24. Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've ... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

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#25. The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

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#26. 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.

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#27. It takes a childish or corrupt imagination to make symbols of other people.

Tobias Wolff

#28. I'm never going to retire.

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#29. I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Charles M. Schwab

#30. So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

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#31. I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

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#32. It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

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