William Shatner Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
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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 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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It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.
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We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.
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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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I'm coming little animal!.
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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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I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.
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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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You need to be silly to be funny.
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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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The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
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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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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
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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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The truth can't be hidden for long.
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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.