William Shatner Quotes - Page 2

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.

We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

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.

You need to be silly to be funny.

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

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 can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

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

There's too many people in the world.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

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.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

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

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

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.

Your cadence is your music.

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

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 love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

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.

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

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.