William Shatner Quotes
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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.
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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
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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.
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
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A series is filled with compromises.
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I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
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Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
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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.
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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.
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Conquest is easy. Control is not.
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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.
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There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
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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.
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I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.
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Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
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You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
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We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
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I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
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When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
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I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
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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.