Top 250 Quotes & Sayings by William Shatner - Page 2
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
I see myself as an actor with a love of music.
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.
I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.
Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
I don't know how to deal with being 80.
I thought I was loved.
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.
Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.
I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
The good life is one that's artistically made.
I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
I have been accused of never saying no.
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.
I've blundered my way through life.
My dad was good with actions.
The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.
My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
You need to be silly to be funny.
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
I love living in Los Angeles.
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.
Death is an absolute marvel.
Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
I love technology.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
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.
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.
Nature is perfect.
Tabloid stuff just offends.
There's too many people in the world.
I can't type. Can't do it.
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
I played comedies and dramas.
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.
I often conduct interviews in my truck.
I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.
Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
All any artist can do is please themselves.
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