William Shatner Quotes
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When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
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My dad was good with actions.
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I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
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I did a movie in Esperanto.
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We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
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I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
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Your cadence is your music.
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My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
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I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.
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My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
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I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
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It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.
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The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
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Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'
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I'm surfing the giant life wave.
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My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.
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Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.
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Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.
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If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
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Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
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I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.
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There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.