William Shatner Quotes
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It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.
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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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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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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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I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.
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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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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
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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'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.
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I'm coming little animal!.
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What does God need with a starship?
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My dad died of a stroke.
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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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I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.
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Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'
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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
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Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.
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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 interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.
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The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
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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.