Shatner William Quotes & Sayings

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. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York. — 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

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

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. — William Shatner

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

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. — William Shatner

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

William Shatner has found a place in your life. In some respects he's become inescapable! — Anonymous

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them. — William Shatner

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

I've blundered my way through life. — William Shatner

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. — 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

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

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it. — William Shatner

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

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. — William Shatner

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval. — William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me. — William Shatner

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

A series is filled with compromises. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I think you die the way you live. — William Shatner

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck. — William Shatner

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one. — 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

The good life is one that's artistically made. — William Shatner

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

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

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

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

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

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me. — William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself. — William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively. — William Shatner

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

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

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive. — William Shatner

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection? — William Shatner

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins. — William Shatner

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it. — 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

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. — 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

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

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. — William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard. — William Shatner

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner. — John Larroquette

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing. — William Shatner

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why. — William Shatner

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication. — William Shatner

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control. — 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 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. — William Shatner

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

My dad was good with actions. — 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

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. — William Shatner

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space. — 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

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down. — William Shatner

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse — 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

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

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie. — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

I never watched 'Star Trek.' — William Shatner

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. — William Shatner

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. — William Shatner

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

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

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. — William Shatner

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you. — William Shatner

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. — William Shatner

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. — William Shatner

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute! — William Shatner

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. — 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

I love living in Los Angeles. — William Shatner

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

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