William Shatner Quotes

The good life is one that's artistically made.

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

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

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.

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

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

A series is filled with compromises.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

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

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

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

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

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.

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.

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

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.

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

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

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

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

There's too many people in the world.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

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

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

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

I love living in Los Angeles.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

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

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

So bitcoin is cyber snob currency.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

My dad was good with actions.

My dad died of a stroke.

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

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

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

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

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.