William Shatner Quotes

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

William Shatner

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• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • School
  • Prepared
  • Degree

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• I’ve studied Jonestown, radical Islam. They’re oftentimes good-hearted people, idealistic, but full of a kind of crushing certainty that eliminates doubt.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Doubt

• The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Game

• I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Sexy

• I'm not an ascetic.

  

  David Mamet

• I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Game

• Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Running

• I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

  

  Alfred Molina

• I think different games have a different chemical release in your brain as far as reward goes. I like making puzzle games, just because I know I'm kinda good at it, and they really are superfun to work on.

  

  Kim Swift
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Small

• I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Life
  • Sorry

• I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • Desire

• My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.

  

  Alex Kingston
  • Life
  • Interesting

• Whate’er there be of SorrowI’ll put off till To-morrow,And when To-morrow comes, why then’T will be To-day and Joy again.

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Why
  • Joy

• Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Women

• Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Song

• Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.

  

  Eugene Souleiman
  • Mistake
  • Prepared
  • Embarrassed

• Always trust the process. I'm a firm believer in that. You know, you keep your eyes on the destination, and of course there will always be detours, but if you're moving towards it, you will always get there.

  

  Andrew Bazzi
  • Trust
  • Process
  • Destination

• I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

  

  William Hague
  • Government
  • Nasty
  • Clique

• With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • Because
  • Confusing
  • Suddenly

• I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

  

  Catherine Crier
  • Problem
  • Issues
  • Jury

• When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

  

  William Shatner
  • Prepared