William Shatner Quotes

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William Shatner

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• I'm a giant Beatles fan.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Fan
  • Beatles
  • Giant

• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Sister

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Decisions

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Today

• It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Nice

• Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Country
  • Small
  • Perfect

• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • God

• I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music

• My kids, they're like nine or ten years old right now so you give 'em responsibilities just to keep them up on things. It ain't just all about getting on the skateboard or putting your Heelys on, and swimming in the pool all the time. You gotta do stuff like wash dishes, take the trash out, feed the dog.

  

  Big Boi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

  

  Kelly Asbury

• I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

  

  Janis Ian
  • God
  • Career

• I put in a lot of effort for a show like 'Jhansi Ki Rani,' and it worked. I think I am very lucky I have done that show!

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Done
  • Effort

• I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

  

  Mary Crosby
  • Long
  • Retirement
  • Vacation

• I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • People
  • Work

• I have a high bar for myself already; I always want to do something beautiful and meaningful.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • High
  • Beautiful
  • Meaningful

• I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Up
  • Future

• People like to watch surfing, but maybe the girls get the wrong kind of promotion and the wrong kind of press. I might be called a feminist for saying it, but it's like the girls are promoted sexually rather than what they're achieving.

  

  Jessica Fox
  • People
  • Feminist
  • Surfing

• I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Great
  • Health
  • Sports

• The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.

  

  John John Florence
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.

  

  Shaggy
  • Trying
  • Surfing
  • Wave

• I'm surfing the giant life wave.

  

  William Shatner
  • Surfing
  • Wave
  • Giants