The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.