A series is filled with compromises.
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
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.
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 hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
I have been accused of never saying no.
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.
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
So bitcoin is cyber snob currency.
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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.
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
