William Shatner Quotes
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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.
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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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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
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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'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
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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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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.
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Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
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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.
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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!
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
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We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.
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What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
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The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
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My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.
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Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
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I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
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One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
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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?