William Shatner
Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.Collection: Attitude
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.Collection: Age
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.Collection: Diet
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.Collection: Marriage
My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Computers
My dad died of a stroke.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Sad
I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?Collection: Travel
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!Collection: Money
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.Collection: Success
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.Collection: Science
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
The good life is one that's artistically made.
If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
I'm surfing the giant life wave.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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.
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.
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
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.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
Death is an absolute marvel.
I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.
When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.
My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
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.
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
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.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
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.