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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Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.
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I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.
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From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
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I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!
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Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.
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I'm surfing the giant life wave.
