William Shatner Quotes

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

I love living in Los Angeles.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

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.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

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

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

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

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

My dad died of a stroke.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

I played comedies and dramas.