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William Shatner Quotes

William Shatner
  • "A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively."
  • "A series is filled with compromises."
  • "Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious."
  • "All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of."
  • "And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time."
  • "Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."
  • "How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
  • "I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love."
  • "I hate flying, flat out hate its guts."
  • "I think making a good film shot is joyful."
  • "I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work."
  • "I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for 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."
  • "I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess."
  • "I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."
  • "I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie."
  • "I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood."
  • "If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!"
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine."
  • "Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"
  • "One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."
  • "Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition."
  • "The good life is one that's artistically made."
  • "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."
  • "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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