William Shatner Quotes
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.'
William Shatner
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
William Shatner
Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
William Shatner
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
William Shatner
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
William Shatner
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
William Shatner
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
William Shatner
I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.
William Shatner
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.
William Shatner
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner
I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock.
William Shatner
Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
William Shatner
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.
William Shatner
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
William Shatner
No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.
William Shatner