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William Shatner
Canadian
Actor
About the author
A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Day
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#Pleasure
#Income
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.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Love
#People
#Truth
#Discovery
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.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Eyes
#Rest
#Babies
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Celebrity
#Creativity
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Character
A series is filled with compromises.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Acting
#Man
#Writing
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.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Character
#Time
#Film
#First
#Guest
#Generations
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Books
#Questions
#Tomorrow
#Quest
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#Force
#Moments
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#May
#Change
#Regret
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Life
#God
#Will
Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Force
Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Man
#Job
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Quality
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Drama
#Ecstasy
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.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Character
#Art
#Ending
#Writing
#Word
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Dignity
#Fool
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Being
#Advice
The good life is one that's artistically made.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Life
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Work
#Hard work
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Money
#Wrong
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Blood
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Love
#Pleasure
#Dogs
#Horses
#Ocean
I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Reading
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Film
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.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Day
#Computers
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Acting
#Desire
#Approval
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.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Life
#Supernatural
I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Writer
I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Blood
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
William Shatner,
Canadian
Actor
#Hate
#Flying