William Shatner Quotes
Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.
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Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
