Why did you become an actor?

Why did you become an actor?

William Shatner (Author) gives expert video advice on: Why did you become an actor?; What's the William Shatner 'Problem Solving' approach to acting?; How should an actor learn to embrace a role? and more...

It was magical to this young person in Montreal. Now I consciously look on television to some of these old black and white films, to see if like comfort food if I can remember where I was, and the Munklin theater. You had to be thirteen to get it. My mother would take me and she would leave. I would sit there through a double bill looking at films and I just grew up on them all. I would go when I was able to get into the theater and it was twenty five cents, I would go with seventy five cents in my hand. And I would go to a double bill in the morning, in the early afternoon with twenty five cents, and then late afternoon into evening. I would go to six movies in a day in downtown Montreal when I was growing up. I was so much a part of that magic screen.