Quotes by Rene Auberjonois

• I'm never going to retire.
• I really do the conventions now for two reasons.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The best scene is the last great scene I did.
• 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.
• It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.
• 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.
• If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
• I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.
• I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
• I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.
• I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
• How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
• 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.
• 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 did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.