Quotes By William Shatner

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

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.'

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

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

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.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

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'm anxious to make another film.

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

Well-written words are music.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

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

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I don't read reviews.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

I don't think in terms of God.

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.

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

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.