Quotes By William Shatner

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.

I have been accused of never saying no.

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

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

I thought I was loved.

I've blundered my way through life.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

I am private.

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 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.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

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

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.

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

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

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

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.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

My dad died of a stroke.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I played comedies and dramas.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

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

I'm surfing the giant life wave.