William Shatner
I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.
Nature is perfect.
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.
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
I don't think in terms of God.
Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
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.
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.
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and 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'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
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.
A series is filled with compromises.
I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
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.
Every day I realized I would not be a star.
I often conduct interviews in my truck.
It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.
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.
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
I never watched 'Star Trek.'
I played comedies and dramas.
Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
I did a movie in Esperanto.
I'm anxious to make another film.
I thought I was loved.
I don't know how to deal with being 80.
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
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.
I've blundered my way through life.
Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.
I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.