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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

William Shatner

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William Shatner
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 22
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I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.
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When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.
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Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!
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Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.
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If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
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I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
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You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
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The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
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I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said where did you learn to ride a horse? I said this is the first time I've ever been on a horse I just knew, I just felt the horse.
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Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!
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Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
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Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
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Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
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Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.
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Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?
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I played comedies and dramas.
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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
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