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

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William Shatner
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 22
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I slept for four days when I turned 40.
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I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
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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.
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A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.
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I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.
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It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.
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Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.
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I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.
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The good life is one that's artistically made.
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Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!
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I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, That was more interesting than that, because I don't know what the criteria are.
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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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These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.
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The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
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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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