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William Shatner
Canadian
Actor
Born:
Mar 22
,
1931
Been
Life
Love
People
Think
You
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I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
William Shatner
Believe
Purpose
Happen
Things
Things Happen
I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.
William Shatner
Inevitable
Believe
Taking
Happens
I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.
William Shatner
Else
Know
Sitcom
Want
Thing
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
William Shatner
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Interviews
Find
About
More
Learn
Learned
Than
Person
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
William Shatner
Silence
Passion
Reticence
Name
Shatner
Perhaps
Partly
Underneath
Germanic
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.
William Shatner
Myself
School
Valentine
Else
Our
Out
Would
Open
Nobody
Nobody Else
Saddest
Read
Because
Always
Loud
Did
Grade
Grade School
Story
Sent
Them
Us
Cards
There's too many people in the world.
William Shatner
People
World
Too Many People
Too
Many
I can't type. Can't do it.
William Shatner
Type
I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
William Shatner
Time
Gossip
Every
Minute
Celebrities
Stand
Lives
My dad died of a stroke.
William Shatner
Stroke
Died
Dad
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.
William Shatner
Today
Glorious
Anti-Semitism
Few
Jews
Way
Montreal
City
Cosmopolitan
Area
Had
Sophisticated
Deal
Educated
Lot
Up
Very
Quite
Growing
Growing Up
Nature is perfect.
William Shatner
Nature
Perfect
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
William Shatner
Me
Political
More
Scene
Need
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
William Shatner
Three
Shakespeare
Had
Been
Years
Lot
Done
Interesting
Fun
Company
I don't think of myself as being tied.
William Shatner
Myself
Think
Tied
Being
All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.
William Shatner
Intrigued
Constantly
Something
Know
Am
Doing
Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
William Shatner
Everybody
Spent
Those
Minutes
Private
Ultimate
Plane
Should
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
William Shatner
Stage
He
Performing
Audience
Actor
Aware
I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
William Shatner
Preparation
Astronauts
Some
Some Things
Through
Go
Been
Things
The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.
William Shatner
People
Control
Other
No Control
He
Over
Lot
Hands
Which
Actor
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
William Shatner
Nature
Physics
Looking
Everything
Possibilities
Tell
Fact
Weird
Underlying
Quantum
Quantum Physics
May
Being
In Fact
Us
Suggested
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.
William Shatner
Best
Good
You
Entertainment
Made
Every
Bad
Tells
Idea
Piece
Terrific
Hits
Done
Going
Whether
Public
Then
Ever
Thing
I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
William Shatner
Live
Live Audience
Month
Never
Longer
Period
Audience
Than
Any
Front
Appeared
Two
At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.
William Shatner
Life
Thought
Three
My Life
Over
Days
Bed
No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.
William Shatner
You
Matter
Seen
Something
More
Part
How
Been
Done
Again
Much
My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
William Shatner
Mother
Exuberant
Silly
Lady
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