William Shatner Quotes
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I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
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You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
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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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Divorce is probably as painful as death.
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It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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I think you die the way you live.
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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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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'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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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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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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I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
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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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I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.
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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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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 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.
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What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
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My dad died of a stroke.
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It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.
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It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.