William Shatner Quotes
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
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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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We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.
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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'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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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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I did a movie in Esperanto.
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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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So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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I played comedies and dramas.
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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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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.
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I love the musicality of words.
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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.