William Shatner Quotes
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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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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
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I played comedies and dramas.
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The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
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Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
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I think making a good film shot is joyful.
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Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.
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I'm surfing the giant life wave.
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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?
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If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
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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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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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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
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We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
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I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
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You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.
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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
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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.
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The truth can't be hidden for long.
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I love living in Los Angeles.
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My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.