Quotes By William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

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

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

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

Nature is perfect.

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

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.

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

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

I'm anxious to make another film.

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

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

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

I don't read reviews.

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

I don't think of myself as being tied.

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

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

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

I don't think in terms of God.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

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

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

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.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

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

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

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

Death is an absolute marvel.