William Shatner Quotes

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

William Shatner

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• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• All our wives are experimental psychologists.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Our
  • Wives
  • Experimental

• The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Hollywood
  • Horrible
  • Satire

• I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Work
  • America
  • Really

• I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Good
  • She

• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Good
  • Help
  • Creativity

• We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Training

• I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

  

  Amy Jackson

• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Time
  • Death
  • Freedom

• Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Children

• In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Trying

• I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Up
  • Food

• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.

  

  Ari Up
  • People
  • Matter
  • Impossible

• Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Doubt
  • Convince
  • Do Not

• We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

  

  William Shatner
  • Convince