William Shatner Quotes

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William Shatner

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 22, 1931

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

William Shatner

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

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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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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

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I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

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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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We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

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The good life is one that's artistically made.

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You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

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I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

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There's too many people in the world.

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Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

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Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

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I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

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I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

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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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