Quotes by Rene Auberjonois

About Rene Auberjonois:

René Murat Auberjonois is an American actor. He is known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the film version of M*A*S*H, Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid (and singing "Les Poissons"), and for originating a number of characters in long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award), Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal. He also lent his voice as Flannigan the human director in Cats Don't Dance.
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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

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.

Rene Auberjonois

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

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'm never going to retire.

Rene Auberjonois

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

Rene Auberjonois

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

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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.

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

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

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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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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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. I...

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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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Author Bio

  • NameRene Auberjonois
  • DescriptionAmerican film, television, and theater actor
  • BornJune 1, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor; Director