Quotes By William Shatner

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

There's too many people in the world.

I'm an optimist.

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.

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.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

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

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

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.