William Shatner Quotes
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Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
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Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.
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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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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
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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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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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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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There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.
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I'm surfing the giant life wave.
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Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.
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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.
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The good life is one that's artistically made.
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Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
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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 see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
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And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.
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I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.
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I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.
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When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
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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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I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
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I slept for four days when I turned 40.