Quotes By William Shatner

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.

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.

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

Death is an absolute marvel.

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.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

I am private.

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.

I thought I was loved.

I've blundered my way through life.

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.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

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.