"It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did."

Source : "Interview: Michael Dorn On His History With TNG & DS9, Nemesis, the 2009 Star Trek & more". Interview with Henning Koonert, trekmovie.com. December 3, 2010.

Michael Dorn

#Smart Quotes #Character Quotes #Past Quotes

“Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.”
“Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.63, Vintage
“When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.”
“Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.”
“I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!”
“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”

Source : Eloise Jarvis McGraw (2007). “The Moorchild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.”
“A house can have integrity, just like a person.”

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