William Shatner Quotes

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 don't think of myself as being tied.

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.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.

We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

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

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

You need to be silly to be funny.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

So bitcoin is cyber snob currency.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

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

I think you die the way you live.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

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

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.