William Shatner Quotes
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Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
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So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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I love living in Los Angeles.
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Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
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I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.
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One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
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I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.
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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
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I love the musicality of words.
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I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
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There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
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I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
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I played comedies and dramas.
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I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
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Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.
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Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
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Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.
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You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.
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We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
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My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.