Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Rene Auberjonois

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

René Murat Auberjonois was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River.

American - Actor | June 1, 1940 - December 8, 2019

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The best scene is the last great scene I did.

Rene Auberjonois

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

Rene Auberjonois

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

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 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm never going to retire.

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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.

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

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

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I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

Rene Auberjonois

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

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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.

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

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

Rene Auberjonois