I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

The good life is one that's artistically made.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.