Quotations and phrases - Rene Auberjonois

And I was pleased to do it, because I've always been a big comic book fan, and Spider-Man has been one of my favorites.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

Clayton wasn't me but because it looked and sounded like me people tended to really connect me with that character.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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

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

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
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I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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

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

I miss it certainly in respect to the fact that I love being part of an ensemble and being part of a steady gig.
-- Rene Auberjonois

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

I'm never going to retire.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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

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

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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!
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

The best scene is the last great scene I did.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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.
-- Rene Auberjonois

This particular trip I'm cashing in my round-trip ticket to go to Ireland first to see my dad, who's 91 years old.
-- Rene Auberjonois

Well, I didn't mimic. I just read it straight. It was fun, but it's a little intimidating even to do their dialogue.
-- Rene Auberjonois

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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