I Don't Think Of Myself As Being

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.

Montreal Is A Very Cosmopolitan, Sophisticated, Erudite, Educated, Glorious City Today. But It Wasn't Quite That Way When I Was Growing Up There. There Was A Lot Of Anti-semitism. And I Had To Deal With That In An Area Of The City That Had Very Few Jews.

The Basic Quality That Any Great Story Must Have Is A Story That Illustrates The Human Condition.

Writing An Acceptance Speech Gives You The Expectation Of Winning, And You Are Therefore Devastated Or Hurt If You Didn't Win.

Don't Be Afraid Of Making An Ass Of Yourself. I Do It All The Time And Look What I Got.