William Shatner Quotes

• 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.

  William Shatner

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• The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.

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• There’s a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it’s overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

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• My kids say if there’s any family dinner that doesn’t result in somebody crying, it’s not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It’s like a family tradition.

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• Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn’t quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

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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 don’t know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

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• A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

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• The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, ‘Ow, I gotta get out of the way,’ but not enough to say, ‘I quit.’

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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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• 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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• Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

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• Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn’t win.

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• When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

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• When I’m interviewing somebody I don’t work from prepared questions.

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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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• Well-written words are music.

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• Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody’s thinking.

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• These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up – all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn’t understand are scoffing at them.

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• There’s too many people in the world.

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William Shatner (138)

Birth:	22nd March, 1931
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Musician, Novelist

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