William Shatner Quotes - Page 5

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're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.

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

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

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.

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.

Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

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.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

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.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

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.

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

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.