William Shatner
William Shatner
William "Bill" Shatneris a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth22 March 1931
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
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Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
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I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.
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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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We went from playing in the very capable minor leagues directly into the major leagues.
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When it got radio play, they didn't want a six-minute cut, they wanted a three-minute cut, so they chose the song,
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I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.
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I see myself as an actor with a love of music.
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I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.
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Everything in front of and behind the cameras was faked, ... The only thing that was real is the love we have for Riverside.
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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.
Every day I realized I would not be a star.
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At that point, looking remarkable healthy, the skunk gave me the finger (I swear!) and casually strolled back into the woods.
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Don't just shove food into your mouth. Taste the flavor exploding in your mouth. Appreciate the texture. Honor your food with the time you take.
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Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!