I don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn't.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Unapologetically be yourself everyday in every way.

Twitter is not a good place for people who feel they're being followed.

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.