William Shatner Quotes
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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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.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
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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.
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
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It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.
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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.
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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.
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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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.
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On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I have a high bar for myself already; I always want to do something beautiful and meaningful.
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At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.
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The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.
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I'm surfing the giant life wave.
