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
burn demise fear glorious illness
My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.
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I was always working. Maybe you weren't aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can.
bag cast instead people playing since work
Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.
exists longer mystery technical technology
When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.
front immediate
The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.
change might
I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
count fingers hour movies number sports watch watched
I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.
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In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.
animated reflect several word
Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.
learned next scramble
With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.
reveals sort
I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
country
I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.
eventually logical might time travel unsettling
I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?
defines everybody finding success
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.