William Shatner Quotes
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
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I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
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Conquest is easy. Control is not.
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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
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Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
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Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
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You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
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I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
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When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
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Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
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I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.
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If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
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Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
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I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
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I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
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I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
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I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.