Rene Auberjonois Quotes

I`ve been thinking about this. My wife, Judith, is the best person in the world.

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.

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

I don`t really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that`s nice if you do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I did a voice for Odo, but people don`t recognize you by your voice.

I`m never going to retire.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

Paramount wanted a sex thing on Enterprise. And a nostalgic feel, like a return to the real old show. It was enough to have one neurotic Star Trek!

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.

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.

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

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

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.