William Shatner Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
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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 can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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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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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 think making a good film shot is joyful.
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The good life is one that's artistically made.
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I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
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Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.
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I did a movie in Esperanto.
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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.
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I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.
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I love living in Los Angeles.
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
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If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
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I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.
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We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.