William Shatner Quotes
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All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
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I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.
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My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
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I'm anxious to make another film.
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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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I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
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I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
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My dad died of a stroke.
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When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.
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People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.
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Divorce is probably as painful as death.
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Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?
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You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.
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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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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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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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You need to be silly to be funny.
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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
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I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.
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What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.
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It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.
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The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.
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Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!