Quotes By William Shatner

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

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

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.

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

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

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

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

You need to be silly to be funny.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

I can't type. Can't do it.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

A series is filled with compromises.

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

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.

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.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

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

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

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

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

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.

There's too many people in the world.

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

I'm an optimist.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.