Quotes By William Shatner

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.

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

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

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

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

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.

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

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

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

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

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

Tabloid stuff just offends.

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

The good life is one that's artistically made.

You need to be silly to be funny.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

I can't type. Can't do it.

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.

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

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.

A series is filled with compromises.

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

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

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.

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

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 that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'