William Shatner Quotes
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I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.
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I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
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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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You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
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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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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
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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 not out to convince anybody of anything.
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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.
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When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.
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My dad died of a stroke.
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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I'm coming little animal!.
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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
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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 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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Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.
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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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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
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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.