William Shatner Quotes - Page 4

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

The good life is one that's artistically made.

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.

Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.