William Quotes

There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.

Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?

No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.