William Shatner Quotes
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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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All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
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It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
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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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You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.
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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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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 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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My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
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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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We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.
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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.
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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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I think you die the way you live.
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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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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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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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It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.
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The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.
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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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The truth can't be hidden for long.