William Shatner Quotes
If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
-
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
-
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
-
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
-
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
-
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
-
You want your coach's blessing.
-
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
-
To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
-
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
-
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
-
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
-
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
-
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
-
You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
-
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
-
But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
-
I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
-
If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.
-
I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice about it being a different medium.
-
I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.
-
It's important to have a life outside the band.
-
Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
-
If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
