Auberjonois Quotes & Sayings

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring
thus he erred himself. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

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

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that character and you have to represent that character well and I think it's just an evolution there. Using the accent and speaking the lines with the accent in fact opens the door to who the character really is. — Ioan Gruffudd

I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave. — Gwenda Bond

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

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

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice. — Rene Auberjonois

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

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

I'm never going to retire. — 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

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

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

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

God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men. — Edgar Magnin

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

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles? — Andy Grove

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

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

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

He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done. — Rene Auberjonois

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

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

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