My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

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 possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

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

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.