Happy Birthday Brent Spiner!

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.

Acting is acting.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

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!

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.

I don't read fiction at all.

I don't read Science Fiction.

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

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.

I'm an avid biography reader.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.

Radical surgery is never fun.

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.

At the end of the day, whenever that may come, some people are going to remember me as Data. My only hope is that I've just done enough other work to kind of balance it a little bit. I don't want to erase it, certainly, because I feel fine about the work.

I remember the first air conditioner we got was a window unit. I would sit in front of it about 12 hours a day, just looking at it and praying to it – the god of cool air.

You know, I'm not sure that all kids aren't performers. Everybody plays cowboys and Indians – it just depends on how seriously you play it.

I don't really trust someone who doesn't think Laurel and Hardy are funny.

That's the way I looked at it. In terms of the western, absolutely. Star Trek from the beginning; Gene's notion for Star Trek was "Wagon Train to the Stars" that was the whole concept. It is a western. I think all sci-fi is western. It's just a different format.

You know The Original Series costumes were made by the actors mothers!

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!

I have been, and always shall be, your fan.

Live long and prosper!