William Shatner Quotes

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

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.

What does God need with a starship?

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

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

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

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

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

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 love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

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

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

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

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

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

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.

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

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

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

You need to be silly to be funny.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

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

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

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.

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

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

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

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.

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

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

A series is filled with compromises.

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

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.