William Shatner Quotes & Sayings

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. — William Shatner

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

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood. — William Shatner

I don't think of myself as being tied. — William Shatner

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen. — William Shatner

My dad died of a stroke. — William Shatner

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. — William Shatner

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me. — William Shatner

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog. — William Shatner

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right. — 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. — William Shatner

Death is an absolute marvel. — William Shatner

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two. — William Shatner

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them. — William Shatner

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth. — William Shatner

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? — William Shatner

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. — 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. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I'm surfing the giant life wave. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got. (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University) — William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. — William Shatner

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. — William Shatner

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version. — William Shatner

I thought I was loved. — William Shatner

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are. — William Shatner

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself. — William Shatner

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad. — William Shatner

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

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. — William Shatner

Don't waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there. — William Shatner

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head? — William Shatner

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do. — William Shatner

What does God need with a starship? — William Shatner

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. — William Shatner

I have been accused of never saying no. — William Shatner

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts. — William Shatner

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing. — William Shatner

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas. — William Shatner

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose. — William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad. — William Shatner

Fate gives you the finger and you accept. — William Shatner

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I slept for four days when I turned 40. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

There's too many people in the world. — William Shatner

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up. — William Shatner

I often conduct interviews in my truck. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

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

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. — William Shatner

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?' — William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect. — William Shatner

I see myself as an actor with a love of music. — William Shatner

I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition. — William Shatner

I think making a good film shot is joyful. — William Shatner

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I'm coming little animal!. — William Shatner

Well-written words are music. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

Never buy anything that eats while you sleep. — William Shatner

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse. — William Shatner

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions. — William Shatner

Nature is perfect. — William Shatner

She's still your mother." Meaning no matter what she's done, how much you don't understand her, you will treat her with respect. She's still your mother. — William Shatner

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. — William Shatner

So bitcoin is cyber snob currency ... — William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

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

I don't think in terms of God. — William Shatner

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate. — William Shatner

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian! — William Shatner

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder. — William Shatner

What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments. — William Shatner

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.' — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

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

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

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time. — William Shatner