Quotes by Brent Spiner

• Radical surgery is never fun.
• 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.
• 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.
• People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
• My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
• If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
• If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.
• I'm an avid biography reader.
• I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
• I don't read Science Fiction.
• I don't read fiction at all.
• Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
• 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.
• 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!
• Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.
• Acting is acting.
• I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.