William Shatner Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

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.

What does God need with a starship?

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.

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

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

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.

Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.

When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.

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.

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.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

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.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

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

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.

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

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

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

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

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.

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.

You need to be silly to be funny.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

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

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.

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

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

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