Quotes By William Shatner

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.

I'm anxious to make another film.

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

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.

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.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

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.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

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.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

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

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

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

Death is an absolute marvel.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

I have been accused of never saying no.

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