William Shatner Quotes

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

My dad was good with actions.

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.

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

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

I love the musicality of words.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

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

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

A series is filled with compromises.

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.

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

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.