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

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

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

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

There's too many people in the world.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.