William Shatner Quotes

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

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.

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

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.

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.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

Death is an absolute marvel.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I think you die the way you live.

I'm coming little animal!.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

I played comedies and dramas.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I have been accused of never saying no.

Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

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.'

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

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

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

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

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

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

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

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

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

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 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.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

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

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.