William Shatner Quotes - Page 2

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• Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

  William Shatner

  Mean, Appreciate, Listening

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• There's too many people in the world.

  William Shatner

  People, World, Nonsense

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• I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

  William Shatner

  Convince

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 28, 2002.

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• It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

  William Shatner

  Summer, Kids, East

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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?

  William Shatner

  Forever, Mind, Example

  William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.342, Macmillan

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• Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

  William Shatner

  Philosophical, Character, Play

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• Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

  William Shatner

  Limited Resources, Youth, Resources

  William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1996). “The Ashes of Eden”, Pocket Books/Star Trek

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• Your cadence is your music.

  William Shatner

  Cadence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

  William Shatner

  Space, Fiction, Stories

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• 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

  Thinking, Parts Of Life, Perceive

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• I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

  William Shatner

  Togetherness, Concepts

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

  William Shatner

  Powerful, Hero, Villain

  Source: za.ign.com

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• 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

  May, Facts, Physics

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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.

  William Shatner

  Space, Accomplishment, Joy

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• We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

  William Shatner

  Fire, Ashes, Embers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I slept for four days when I turned 40.

  William Shatner

  Four

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• Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

  William Shatner

  Smell, Garlic

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• Conquest is easy. Control is not.

  William Shatner

  Easy, Conquest

  William Shatner (2000). “Dark Victory”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

  William Shatner

  Memories, Journey, Markers

  William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1995). “The Ashes of Eden”, Pocket Books/Star Trek

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• There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

  William Shatner

  Silent, Jokes

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• Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

  William Shatner

  Sake

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• The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

  William Shatner

  Destiny, Free Will, Conundrums

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• I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

  William Shatner

  Tombstone, Air, Religion

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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?

  William Shatner

  Death, Important, Dying

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• What does God need with a starship?

  William Shatner

  Captain Kirk, Doe, Needs

  Jeanne M. Dillard, David Loughery, William Shatner, Harve Bennett (1989). “Star Trek V, the final frontier: a novel”

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