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The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control. ↗

— William Shatner

#control #hands #lot #other #over

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. ↗

— William Shatner

#germanic #name #partly #passion #perhaps

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly. ↗

— William Shatner

#anything #clearly #i #know #myself

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. ↗

— William Shatner

#composition #doing #drama #ecstasy #film

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. ↗

— William Shatner

#come #comic-con #country #dress #people

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. ↗

— William Shatner

#amusing #everybody #i #i am #loud

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. ↗

— William Shatner

#death #grief #having #home #leaving

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions. ↗

— William Shatner

#day #different #different opinions #every #every day

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

#devastated #expectation #gives #hurt #speech

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#back #being #bring #come #dream