William Shatner
I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.Collection: Creative
I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.Collection: Stars
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.Collection: Ideas
What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?Collection: Rejection
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. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!Collection: Technology
My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.Collection: Life
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.Collection: Boys
And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.Collection: Attitude
Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.Collection: Writing
I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.Collection: Degrees
Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.Collection: Hero
I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.Collection: Years
It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.Collection: Thinking
I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.Collection: Past
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.Collection: Past
The truth can't be hidden for long.Collection: Long
A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.Collection: Stars
Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.Collection: Rest In Peace
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.Collection: Fun
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.Collection: Character
I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.Collection: Athlete
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.Collection: Mother
Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.Collection: Good As It Gets
I love the musicality of words.Collection: Musicality
When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.Collection: Horse
You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.Collection: Actors
I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.Collection: Jobs
Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.Collection: Knows
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.Collection: Father
I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.Collection: Country
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.Collection: Pain
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!Collection: Pain
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.Collection: Struggle
Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!Collection: Too Much
I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.Collection: Fun
I think you die the way you live.Collection: Death
I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.Collection: Horse
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.Collection: Advice
I'm coming little animal!.Collection: Animal
I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.Collection: Mother
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.Collection: Philosophical
It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.Collection: House
I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.Collection: Men
Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.Collection: Fun
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.Collection: Character
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.Collection: Success
Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.Collection: Sleep
If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.Collection: Work
So bitcoin is cyber snob currency.Collection: Bitcoin