Quotes By William Shatner

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

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.

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

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

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

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

Nature is perfect.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

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

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

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.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

My dad was good with actions.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

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

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

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 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.

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.

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

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

I think making a good film shot is joyful.