I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder. William Shatner More Quotes by William Shatner More Quotes From William Shatner It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast. William Shatner thinking I love the musicality of words. William Shatner musicality Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle. William Shatner struggle hero needs Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making. William Shatner good-as-it-gets arabia looks Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting. William Shatner tired writing class 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. William Shatner graduates degrees students 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. William Shatner fun years interesting Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness. William Shatner play giving character I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me. William Shatner awe-and-wonder people world My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal. William Shatner dad brother mother We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect. William Shatner fire past thinking You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting. William Shatner something-new failing interesting I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past. William Shatner taking-pictures cameras past 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. William Shatner holiday horse school You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor. William Shatner rehearsal actors want I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness. William Shatner miracle stars talking I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside. William Shatner silence athlete missing The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time. William Shatner actors long ideas It's my brand, so people come to me with futuristic ideas, and I'm thinking,' That's good. If just one of these ideas exists in the future, my family will love it.' They'll have the benefit of it. It's exciting to be part of it, so in a lot of cases, I'm becoming part of the company, against taking a salary. William Shatner entertainment I feel really awful. Here I am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried. William Shatner entertainment
