William Shatner Quotes (50 Quotes)

He'd written me a letter and I didn't recognize the name until my children clapped and said, 'You've got to do this,'

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

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.

This show is about the kind of songs you like and can sing, but you can't remember the artist because maybe they never caught on again. We give those artists some renown.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

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.

A series is filled with compromises.

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.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

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 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.

We wanted to put something definitive down for the record, but the conditions were two friends talking one-on-one. It makes it a revealing, honest interchange of feelings and thoughts that no interview would have been capable of doing.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

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

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

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.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

Don't just shove food into your mouth. Taste the flavor exploding in your mouth. Appreciate the texture. Honor your food with the time you take.

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.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

You've got to remember he's only a head, so now he's got these other appendages that he's enjoying a lot. Certain appendages more than others,

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

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

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.

Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK as IF Every Other SYLlable WAS of DIRE ImPORTance

It was exciting in that it was the first of the films. Nobody had ever dreamt of it being a major motion picture. Robert Wise was one of the leading lights, one of the great directors, and he was quite a force. And so between the idea of it being a major motion picture and Robert Wise directing, it was an important moment in all our lives.

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.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

Everything in front of and behind the cameras was faked, ... The only thing that was real is the love we have for Riverside.

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.

We went from playing in the very capable minor leagues directly into the major leagues.

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T. J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170... some audience members say 'one', or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I've never had green alien sex, though I'm sure it would be quite an evening. Pomp and Circumstance begins playing I speak English and French, not Klingon I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale And when someone says to me 'Live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'Get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

In the world that we inhabit, having one hit is a lot better than having no hits.

When it got radio play, they didn't want a six-minute cut, they wanted a three-minute cut, so they chose the song,

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.

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

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

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.