William Shatner Quotes
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I'm anxious to make another film.
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Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
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I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.
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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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My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
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I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.
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Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!
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How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
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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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If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
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My dad died of a stroke.
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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.
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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
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Death is an absolute marvel.
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The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
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Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.
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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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I played comedies and dramas.
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Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
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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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I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.
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I think making a good film shot is joyful.
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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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This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
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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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The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
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There's too many people in the world.
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