William Shatner Quotes
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If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
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I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.
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When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
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I think you die the way you live.
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When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.
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I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
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Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
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People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.
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I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
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I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
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Divorce is probably as painful as death.
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My dad died of a stroke.
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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.
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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
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Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?
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My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
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What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.
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It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.
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The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
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I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.
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My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.