Top 250 Quotes & Sayings by William Shatner - Page 3

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

My dad died of a stroke.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

I'm anxious to make another film.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

Well-written words are music.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

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.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

I am private.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

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?

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

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.

We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.