Quotes By William Shatner

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.

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

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

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

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

My dad died of a stroke.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

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

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

I played comedies and dramas.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

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

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

Well-written words are music.

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

I love living in Los Angeles.

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.

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

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

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

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.

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.