William Shatner Quotes - Page 3

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

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

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

What does God need with a starship?

What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

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.

The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.

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

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.

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.

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.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

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

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

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

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

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.

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

I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

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.'